Re: uuids on freebsd

From: David Lee Lambert <davidl(at)lmert(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: uuids on freebsd
Date: 2008-12-24 18:08:01
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On Dec 17, 2:30 pm, Andrew Gierth <and(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> wrote:
> Has anyone ever managed to get uuid generation working on FreeBSD? [...]
>
> ([...] The only solution I could come up with was to knock
> off a quick uuid-freebsd module that uses the base system uuid
> functions rather than the ossp ones. I could put this on pgfoundry if
> there isn't likely to be a real fix in the near future.)

+1 for putting it on pgFoundry.

I managed to hack the old contrib/uuid so it would use the functions
from Linux e2fs uuid on 8.0/8.1/8.2. I might have time soon to see if
I can get that to work on 8.3.

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