"Arnau Rebassa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm using a debian linux as OS with a 2.4 kernel running on it.
Incidentally, are you reconnecting every time or is it that multiple calls in a single session are returning the same record?
I'm reconnecting each time I want to retrieve a message.
Hmm. postmaster.c does this during startup of each backend process:
gettimeofday(&now, &tz); srandom((unsigned int) now.tv_usec);
If it uses the same seed from the connection, then all randoms within a connect that has not reconnected will use the same seed. Which means the same sequence will be generated each time, which is why it is pseudo-random and not random. For it to be random not just the first call of a new connection, but among all calls of new connection, it would have to seed it based on time at the moment of query and not at the moment of connect. A pseudo-random generator using the same seed will generate the same sequence.
D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
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