Re: [PATCH] Replacement for OSSP-UUID for Linux and BSD

On 2014-05-27 16:36:45 +0200, Matteo Beccati wrote:
> On 27/05/2014 15:52, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Ah, cool. I had documented this option as only working for FreeBSD,
> > but that's obviously too conservative. Anyone know about whether it
> > works on OpenBSD?
>
> I've tried to google "man uuid openbsd" and I got the e2fs package
> (which contains uuid/uuid.h and libuuid) instead of a man page, so I
> believe that could be another use case for --with-linux-uuid.
>
> If it's confirmed to be working, that makes two BSD-derived systems
> requiring "linux-uuid", so --with-e2fs-uuid or similar would be more
> appropriate.

When I looked at the e2fs uuid implementation a year or so back, it even
had some form of windows support. So +1 to naming it non-os specifically.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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