From: | "Nigel J(dot) Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | Alex Satrapa <alex(at)lintelsys(dot)com(dot)au> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Drawbacks of using BYTEA for PK? |
Date: | 2004-01-13 23:00:03 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0401132256450.7764-100000@ponder.fairway2k.co.uk |
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Alex Satrapa wrote:
> David Garamond wrote:
> > Remember that /sbin/ifconfig output usually include MAC address too. Not
> > that MAC addresses are 100% unique, but that should increase the
> > uniqueness.
>
> How do you increase uniqueness? Either a value is unique or it isn't -
> if you've got multiple hosts on the network with the same network
> address, you're in big trouble!
It's easily done; you've misread it. David said _MAC_ address. Of course your
comment still stands if you've got the same MAC address on a segment more than
once.
>
> 32 bits for an IP address is a huge number space... but why you'd really
> need that much space as a base for your GUID is beyond me. The "host"
> part of the address (eg: the last 8 bits in a /24 network block) would
> be enough to uniquely identify the 254 hosts on your network.
I might have more that 256 hosts.
I can't comment on the real content of this discussion though since a) I
haven't be reading it and b) I probably wouldn't know what it was on about if
I had been.
--
Nigel J. Andrews
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