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Previously we just set the seed based on process ID and start timestamp. Both those values are directly available within the session, and can be found out or guessed by other users too, making the session's series of random(3) values fairly predictable. Up to now, our backend-internal uses of random(3) haven't seemed security-critical, but commit 88bdbd3f7 added one that potentially is: when using log_statement_sample_rate, a user might be able to predict which of his SQL statements will get logged. To improve this situation, upgrade the per-process seed initialization method to use pg_strong_random() if available, greatly reducing the predictability of the initial seed value. This adds a few tens of microseconds to process start time, but since backend startup time is at least a couple of milliseconds, that seems an acceptable price. This means that pg_strong_random() needs to be able to run without reliance on any backend infrastructure, since it will be invoked before any of that is up. It was safe for that already, but adjust comments and #include commands to make it clearer. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3859.1545849900@sss.pgh.pa.us
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