Replace PostmasterRandom() with a stronger way of generating randomness.

This adds a new routine, pg_strong_random() for generating random bytes,
for use in both frontend and backend. At the moment, it's only used in
the backend, but the upcoming SCRAM authentication patches need strong
random numbers in libpq as well.

pg_strong_random() is based on, and replaces, the existing implementation
in pgcrypto. It can acquire strong random numbers from a number of sources,
depending on what's available:
- OpenSSL RAND_bytes(), if built with OpenSSL
- On Windows, the native cryptographic functions are used
- /dev/urandom
- /dev/random

Original patch by Magnus Hagander, with further work by Michael Paquier
and me.

Discussion: <CAB7nPqRy3krN8quR9XujMVVHYtXJ0_60nqgVc6oUk8ygyVkZsA@mail.gmail.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/port.h b/src/include/port.h
index b81fa4a89eb..4bb9feeb019 100644
--- a/src/include/port.h
+++ b/src/include/port.h
@@ -454,6 +454,9 @@ extern int	pg_codepage_to_encoding(UINT cp);
 extern char *inet_net_ntop(int af, const void *src, int bits,
 			  char *dst, size_t size);
 
+/* port/pg_strong_random.c */
+extern bool pg_strong_random(void *buf, size_t len);
+
 /* port/pgcheckdir.c */
 extern int	pg_check_dir(const char *dir);