Jeremy Drake wrote: > > I am open to suggestions. I saw one suggestion that I use an > image of an elephant, but I suspect that was tongue-in-cheek. > I am not very fond of the idea of generating repetitious > data, as I think it would be more difficult to determine > whether or not the loseek/tell functions put me in the right > place in the middle of the file. Perhaps if there was a way > to generate deterministic pseudo-random data, that would work > (has to be deterministic so the diffs of the output come out > right). Anyone have a good example of seeding a random > number generator and generating a bunch of bytea which is > deterministic cross-platform? >
How about just using a mathmatical series, like Fibonacci? You can make the file as big as you want from a trivial generator. If you store it as space-separated ASCII ( 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 ... ), it should be platform independent and you can compare any range of offsets that suits. Regards, Paul Bort ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
