Re: *****SPAM***** Re: UUID column as pimrary key?

From: Michael Satterwhite <michael(at)weblore(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: *****SPAM***** Re: UUID column as pimrary key?
Date: 2011-01-06 15:19:14
Message-ID: 201101060919.14621.michael@weblore.com
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On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 08:46:18 pm Scott Ribe wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> > Each machine would have a unique machine_id. This would guarantee
> > uniqueness and be very easy to maintain.
>
> And if somebody clones the disk to a new machine, but leaves the old one in
> service? Or do you use the MAC address and hope that's unique?

That would be a matter of incompetent administration. *NOTHING* can protect
against that.

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