Re: [DOCS] uuid type not documented

From: "Marko Kreen" <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: "Neil Conway" <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, "Gevik Babakhani" <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [DOCS] uuid type not documented
Date: 2007-04-11 06:46:51
Message-ID: e51f66da0704102346i53064150o4c0f0108288fbacd@mail.gmail.com
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On 4/10/07, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> 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.

FYI: good random source is already available in pgcrypto,
it uses either OpenSSL RAND_bytes() or internal strong PRNG.

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marko

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