In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A better way would be to seed a Mersenne Twister PRNG at server startup > time and then use the same generator for all subsequent calls. > http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html > The period is exceptionally long, and it has many excellent properties. I think you're slightly missing the point. Every PRNG always returns the same output swquence for the same seed, and that's the problem with the current implementation: it might happen that two backends get the same seed. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
