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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
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*/
#define DEFAULT_EVENT_SOURCE "PostgreSQL"
/*
* The random() function is expected to yield values between 0 and
* MAX_RANDOM_VALUE. Currently, all known implementations yield
* 0..2^31-1, so we just hardwire this constant. We could do a
* configure test if it proves to be necessary. CAUTION: Think not to
* replace this with RAND_MAX. RAND_MAX defines the maximum value of
* the older rand() function, which is often different from --- and
* considerably inferior to --- random().
*/
#define MAX_RANDOM_VALUE PG_INT32_MAX
/*
* On PPC machines, decide whether to use the mutex hint bit in LWARX
* instructions. Setting the hint bit will slightly improve spinlock