[Pgpool-hackers] Regarding the new now() handling

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> > > I've been reading the patch which allow pgPool-II to handle calls to
> > > now() when pgPool-II is in replication mode. This is quite interesting.
> > > Nevertheless, I was wondering why random() did not get the same treament.
> > > Is there issues with it?
> > 
> > There's no technical reason why we can't do this. If there's enough
> > demand, we will implement it.
> 
> OK. I'm for it. But I suppose one is not enough :)

Just out of curiousity, what are the use cases for random()? Maybe for
generating test data?
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan