| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com>, "jerry(dot)evans(at)chordia" <jerry(dot)evans(at)chordia(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Analogue to SQL Server UniqueIdentifier? |
| Date: | 2008-02-19 16:07:07 |
| Message-ID: | 3845.1203437227@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> Lack of support for Windows, which it sounds like the OP might be running?
> That's something that's been on my agenda for a while. There are certainly
> UUID generation functions available on Windows - at least for some of the
> cases supported by uuid-ossp. If I were to write the same functions for
> that one, where would people prefer that to go - in the uuid-ossp module
> even though that's actually not correct (since it wouldn't be using ossp)
> or a separate module uuid-win32?
The latter is *completely* unacceptable. The entire point here is to
not expose any differences at the SQL level.
Why can't ossp be used --- is it impossible to port to Windows?
regards, tom lane
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