| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hackers Pg <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: ossp-uuid Contrib Patch |
| Date: | 2012-09-12 03:58:48 |
| Message-ID: | B87891BC-7AC4-451F-AE0C-F2A5B3AF964F@justatheory.com |
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On Sep 10, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>> Yeah, maybe. It doesn't even seem to be the "standard" implementation
>> on Linux or Mac. A bit of research says that Theodore Ts'o's libuuid
>> is what comes native with the OS on those platforms. No idea whether
>> the functionality is equivalent, though.
>
> They have different interfaces that would also affect the exposed SQL
> interfaces. We could provide two different extensions, wrapping each
> library.
Yes, I think the question becomes how much pg wants to depend on abandonware for its contrib extensions.
Best,
David
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