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

[Guillaume Lelarge]

Le jeudi 10 décembre 2009 à 14:44:15, Tatsuo Ishii a écrit :
> > > > 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?

Good question. I should better ask my customers. But you're right, I don't see 
much value to add this.


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