| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, nicoanto <na(at)mnm-consulting(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #4167: When generating UUID using UUID-OSSP module, UUIDs are not unique on Windows |
| Date: | 2008-05-14 16:10:20 |
| Message-ID: | 20080514161020.GA9838@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008 schrieb Alvaro Herrera:
> > Hmm, surely the problem is unrelated? He gets the same numbers on
> > _Windows_, whereas Ubuntu shows the good behavior.
>
> Oh, I read it backwards. So then the random number generator on Windows is
> the problem in this case.
Right.
Actually what I would suggest is using the Windows API for generating
UUIDs instead of OOSP-UUID.
> > Also, OOSP-UUID does not depend on OpenSSL AFAIR.
>
> Written by the same guy anyway. :-/
Oh, right ...
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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