Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > BTW, I don't know why anyone would think that "a random number" > would offer any advantage here. I'd use the postmaster PID, which > is guaranteed to be unique across the space that you're worried > about. Well, in the post I cited, it was you who argued that the PID was a bad choice, suggested a random number, and stated "That would have a substantially lower collision probability than PID, if the number generation process were well designed; and it wouldn't risk exposing anything sensitive in the ping response." -Kevin
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