Re: uuid-ossp (Re: [pgsql-packagers] Postgresapp 9.4 beta build ready)

From: Matteo Beccati <php(at)beccati(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>, Sandeep Thakkar <sandeep(dot)thakkar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jakob Egger <jakob(at)eggerapps(dot)at>, Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: uuid-ossp (Re: [pgsql-packagers] Postgresapp 9.4 beta build ready)
Date: 2014-05-23 15:28:42
Message-ID: 537F692A.5090504@beccati.com
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On 23/05/2014 10:05, Matteo Beccati wrote:
> You can find the code here:
> https://github.com/mbeccati/uuid # NetBSD variant
> https://github.com/mbeccati/uuid/tree/linux # Ubuntu variant
>
> For now, I've forked just RhodiumToad's uuid-freebsd extension, but I've
> made sure make works fine when cloned in the contrib folder.
>
> * Both the variants use a copy of pgcrypto md5/sha1 implementations to
> generate v3 and v5 UUIDs as porting is much easier than trying to use
> the system provided ones, if any.
> * I've fixed a bug in v3/v5 generation wrt endianness as the results I
> was getting didn't match the RFC.
> * The code is PoC quality and I haven't touched the docs/readme yet.

And here's my last effort w/ autoconf support:

https://github.com/mbeccati/postgres/compare/postgres:master...master

It's surely far from perfect, but maybe closer to something that can be
considered as a replacement for OSSP.

Especially I'm not that happy about the #ifdefs cluttering the code and
AC_SEARCH_LIB putting libuuid in $LIBS. Any suggestion?

Cheers
--
Matteo Beccati

Development & Consulting - http://www.beccati.com/

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