Re: GUIDs

From: Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: David Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: GUIDs
Date: 2003-11-14 23:18:46
Message-ID: 871xsatu7d.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org
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David Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:

> On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 12:04 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
> > Couldn't you use numeric? That should be fairly portable.
>
> Not really. The GUID is 128 bits, which doesn't work so well on 32-bit
> systems.

NUMERIC is an arbitrary-precision integer, not a machine word.

-Doug

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