Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> writes: > I have not check in details this thread so I may be saying something > stupid... But if you are looking for a frontend implementation for > strong randoms, please extract pg_frontend_random in fe-auth-scram.c and > move it to its own file for example in src/common as a frontend-only > file. When working on SCRAM, I recall mentioning that but Heikki has > kept the code in its current shape for simplicity.
I don't really see the point of doing more work than we've done there. No modern platform should be without pg_strong_random, and if you've actually had to use --disable-strong-random, it will not be astonishing that you lose some functionality. Also, while I personally do not see a use-case why somebody would need cryptographically strong random seeds in pgbench, if somebody did need that then they wouldn't thank us for silently falling back to a not-strong generation method if the platform is misconfigured somehow. regards, tom lane