Re: GUIDs

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: David Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: GUIDs
Date: 2003-11-15 04:20:11
Message-ID: 20031115042011.GC10588@wolff.to
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 18:26:27 -0500,
David Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> wrote:
> On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 06:18 PM, Doug McNaught wrote:
>
> >NUMERIC is an arbitrary-precision integer, not a machine word
>
> Yeah, but that doesn't help me in Perl.

You can probably keep it as a string in perl. There are also large number
handling routines available for perl if you really need to treat it
as a number there.

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