| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Harald Armin Massa <haraldarminmassa(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] Patch for UUID datatype (beta) |
| Date: | 2006-09-18 15:53:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20060918155354.GG8796@svana.org |
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On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:29:34PM +0200, Harald Armin Massa wrote:
> I would really like PostgreSQL to include an uuid-generation function
> crafted along the recommendations in rfc4122 or ISO/IEC 9834-8; so those
> UUIDs have a "ISO/IEC-defined uniqueness" or at least a "ISO/IEC-defined
> extreme likelyness to be unique"
The code to get things like the MAC address is going to be a pile of
very OS specific code, which I really don't think is in the realm of
code postgresql wants to maintain. The easier and better solution is to
include a module in contrib (at best) that calls some standard
cross-platform library to do the job.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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