| From: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [DOCS] uuid type not documented |
| Date: | 2007-04-10 19:30:52 |
| Message-ID: | 1176233452.6558.52.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 18:28 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The problem is that most of the standard methods are platform dependent, as
> they require MAC addresses or a "good" random source, for instance.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-01/msg00392.php
ISTM random() or similar sources is a sufficient PSRNG for the purposes
of UUID generation -- I can't see anything in the RFC that would
contradict that.
-Neil
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