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Kris Jurka wrote:
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> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Tom Lane wrote:
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> > It's not really possible to use it "incorrectly", AFAICS. Any value you
> > might pass to it will result in a specific new seed value. Nowhere is
> > there any guarantee of what the mapping is, and it's obviously
> > impossible to guarantee that the mapping is one-to-one, so any user
> > assumptions about what a specific seed value might "mean" seem broken
> > regardless.
> >
>
> Then please consider this patch which checks the range and maps the
> provided value to the entire seed space.
>
> Kris Jurka
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