| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, Matteo Beccati <php(at)beccati(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Replacement for OSSP-UUID for Linux and BSD |
| Date: | 2014-05-29 12:14:00 |
| Message-ID: | 53872488.6050702@gmx.net |
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On 5/27/14, 10:37 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm not terribly happy about pushing such a change post-beta1 either,
> but it's not like this isn't something we've known was needed. Anyway,
> what's the worst case if we find a bug here? Tell people not to use
> uuid-ossp?
Mainly some more discussion time would have been nice. Also, while the
old ossp-based uuid was broken in some cases, it had a well-defined
workaround. The new code introduces a whole new dimension of potential
portability issues.
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