Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can now - it's part of :base_math. What we should do, however, is > disallow is calling srand, since pg goes to quite a bit of trouble to > seed the PRNG.
But changing the PRNG seed within one backend is not a security issue. At least, we allow anyone to do "SET SEED" or call setseed, so I don't see any reason to disallow it in plperl. In general I'm pretty sure that no one has reviewed the list of restrictions carefully, so by all means send in a patch once you've done so. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])