Noah Misch d68d5adfdc Initialize random() in bootstrap/stand-alone postgres and in initdb. ...

This removes a difference between the standard IsUnderPostmaster
execution environment and that of --boot and --single.  In a stand-alone
backend, "SELECT random()" always started at the same seed.

On a system capable of using posix shared memory, initdb could still
conclude "selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... sysv".
Crashed --boot or --single postgres processes orphaned shared memory
objects having names that collided with the not-actually-random names
that initdb probed.  The sysv fallback appeared after ten crashes of
--boot or --single postgres.  Since --boot and --single are rare in
production use, systems used for PostgreSQL development are the
principal candidate to notice this symptom.

Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions).  PostgreSQL 9.4 introduced
dynamic shared memory, but 9.3 does share the "SELECT random()" problem.

Reviewed by Tom Lane and Kyotaro HORIGUCHI.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180915221546.GA3159382@rfd.leadboat.com

2018-09-23 22:56:43 -07:00

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globals.c

Unify SIGHUP handling between normal and walsender backends.

2017-06-05 19:18:16 -07:00

Makefile

Remove cvs keywords from all files.

2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00

miscinit.c

Initialize random() in bootstrap/stand-alone postgres and in initdb.

2018-09-23 22:56:43 -07:00

postinit.c

Fix typos in comments.

2017-02-06 11:34:18 +02:00