| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: guid/uuid datatype |
| Date: | 2007-01-20 13:07:21 |
| Message-ID: | 200701201407.22623.peter_e@gmx.net |
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Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> There could be many algorithms to generate a guid. I guess we will
> get into a big debate on that, which is not much useful i guess
> (seeing the posts last year).
There are a handful of standardized or established algorithms, so it
doesn't hurt to provide them all. Compare pgcrypto -- certainly no one
needs all those encryption algorithms, but we offer them.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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