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Replace random(), pg_erand48(), etc with a better PRNG API and algorithm.

Standardize on xoroshiro128** as our basic PRNG algorithm, eliminating
a bunch of platform dependencies as well as fundamentally-obsolete PRNG
code.  In addition, this API replacement will ease replacing the
algorithm again in future, should that become necessary.

xoroshiro128** is a few percent slower than the drand48 family,
but it can produce full-width 64-bit random values not only 48-bit,
and it should be much more trustworthy.  It's likely to be noticeably
faster than the platform's random(), depending on which platform you
are thinking about; and we can have non-global state vectors easily,
unlike with random().  It is not cryptographically strong, but neither
are the functions it replaces.

Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Dean Rasheed, Aleksander Alekseev, and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2105241211230.165418@pseudo
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Tom Lane
2021-11-28 21:32:36 -05:00
parent f44ceb46ec
commit 3804539e48
50 changed files with 543 additions and 480 deletions

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@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include "access/nbtxlog.h"
#include "access/transam.h"
#include "access/xloginsert.h"
#include "common/pg_prng.h"
#include "lib/qunique.h"
#include "miscadmin.h"
#include "storage/lmgr.h"
@@ -965,7 +966,7 @@ _bt_findinsertloc(Relation rel,
if (P_RIGHTMOST(opaque) ||
_bt_compare(rel, itup_key, page, P_HIKEY) != 0 ||
random() <= (MAX_RANDOM_VALUE / 100))
pg_prng_uint32(&pg_global_prng_state) <= (PG_UINT32_MAX / 100))
break;
_bt_stepright(rel, insertstate, stack);