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