| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc |
| Cc: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jimn(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] Patch for UUID datatype (beta) |
| Date: | 2006-09-19 14:11:39 |
| Message-ID: | 450FFA9B.9050203@dunslane.net |
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mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc wrote:
>> As others have mentioned, using MAC address doesn't remove the
>> possibility of a collision.
>>
>
> It does, as I control the MAC address. I can choose not to overwrite it.
> I can choose to ensure that any cases where it is overwritten, it is
> overwritten with a unique value.
>
How do you know somebody else isn't using that MAC value?
cheers
andrew
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