On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM Masahiko Sawada <[email protected]> wrote: > Does it mean that we introduce something like pg_fast_random() and > packagers can select it as the random number generation function > instead of pg_strong_random()? Or can packagers select the function > used in pg_strong_random()?
The latter -- packagers should be able to select the implementation of pg_strong_random(). I think pg_fast_random() is likely to be a bad abstraction if we don't have more use cases to guide it. > All of these sound reasonable to me. I think we can handle this as two > separate discussions: one for the UUID implementation changes, and > another for the pg_strong_random() modifications (which would cover > both the runtime switching for superusers and the compile-time > alternatives for packagers). Sounds good to me. (Which would you like this thread to be?) --Jacob
