| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [DOCS] uuid type not documented |
| Date: | 2007-04-10 19:49:08 |
| Message-ID: | 461BEA34.2040601@dunslane.net |
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 18:28 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> The problem is that most of the standard methods are platform dependent, as
>> they require MAC addresses or a "good" random source, for instance.
>>
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-01/msg00392.php
>
> ISTM random() or similar sources is a sufficient PSRNG for the purposes
> of UUID generation -- I can't see anything in the RFC that would
> contradict that.
>
>
How about we set up a contrib (I wish we'd fixed that) module with an
example function or two?
cheers
andrew
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