| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, Hackers Pg <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: ossp-uuid Contrib Patch |
| Date: | 2012-09-11 01:05:55 |
| Message-ID: | 1347325555.16640.5.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 20:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "David E. Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> writes:
> > Well given that OSSP seems to be abandon ware (no activity since July 2008), it might be time to dump it in favor of something else.
>
> Yeah, maybe. It doesn't even seem to be the "standard" implementation
> on Linux or Mac. A bit of research says that Theodore Ts'o's libuuid
> is what comes native with the OS on those platforms. No idea whether
> the functionality is equivalent, though.
They have different interfaces that would also affect the exposed SQL
interfaces. We could provide two different extensions, wrapping each
library.
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