On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:14:19 -0400, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It occurs to me that you might be seeing predictability as an indirect > result of something else you are doing that somehow tends to synchronize > the backend start times. Are you connecting from a cron script that > would tend to be launched at the same relative instant within a second? > > It might improve matters to make the code do something like > > srandom((unsigned int) (now.tv_sec ^ now.tv_usec));
Using /dev/urandom, where available, might be another option. However, some people may not want their entropy pool getting 4 bytes used up on every connection start up. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
