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takes two parameters, an OID x and an integer y, and returns "true" with probability 1/y (the OID argument is ignored). This can be useful -- for example, it can be used to select a random sampling of the rows in a table (which is what the "random" regression test uses it for). This patch removes that function, because it was old and messy. The old function had the following problems: - it was undocumented - it was poorly named - it was designed to workaround an optimizer bug that no longer exists (the OID argument is to ensure that the optimizer won't optimize away calls to the function; AFAIK marking the function as 'volatile' suffices nowadays) - it used a different random-number generation technique than the other PSRNG-related functions in the backend do (it called random() like they do, but it had its own logic for setting a set and deciding when to reseed the RNG). Ok, this patch removes oidrand(), oidsrand(), and userfntest(), and improves the SGML docs a little bit (un-commenting the setseed() documentation). Neil Conway