Re: Full GUID support

Does this look to be something that will surface around for 9.1

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Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

>On Sunday, July 3, 2011, Michael Gould
><mgould(at)intermodalsoftwaresolutions(dot)net> wrote:
>&gt; Peter,
>&gt;
>&gt; I don't believe that the library that the contrib module runs with can run
>&gt; on Window 64 bit servers or even Windows 7 64 bit.  That is problem as most
>&gt; shops are using 64 bit OS and if Window the contrib module is
>going to fail.
>&gt;  Taking the responsibility to handle this internally means that you can
>&gt; write your own implementation not based on a libary that can't handle
>&gt; Windows 64 bit.
>
>The next release of the installers will, now that we have a 64 Windows
>port of ossp-uuid.
>
>Even If that weren't the case, integrating the type wouldn't fix the
>problem anyway, unless you're suggesting we implement our own UUID
>generator (which isn't nearly as straightforward as it might seem, as
>I understand it)..
>
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