Kris Jurka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Tom Lane wrote: >> It's not really possible to use it "incorrectly", AFAICS. Any value you >> might pass to it will result in a specific new seed value. Nowhere is >> there any guarantee of what the mapping is, and it's obviously >> impossible to guarantee that the mapping is one-to-one, so any user >> assumptions about what a specific seed value might "mean" seem broken >> regardless.
> Then please consider this patch which checks the range and maps the > provided value to the entire seed space. I'm still not very happy about this. It'll change the behavior of existing applications, in the service of no goal that I consider convincing. I'd be inclined to leave the mapping alone and just insert a warning (or hard error) for inputs outside the range -1 to 1. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs