Re: UUID - Data type inefficient

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 12:05 -0400, Mark Mielke wrote:
> Mark Mielke wrote:
> > I didn't notice that he put 16. Now I'm looking at uuid.c in 
> > PostgreSQL 8.3.3 and I see that it does use 16, and the struct 
> > pg_uuid_t is length 16. I find myself confused now - why does 
> > PostgreSQL define UUID_LEN as 16?
> >
> > I will investigate if I have time tonight. There MUST be some mistake 
> > or misunderstanding. 128-bit numbers should be stored as 8 bytes, not 16.
> 
> Grrrr.... Kless you've confused me.  32-bit numbers = 4 bytes, 64-bit 
> numbers = 8 bytes, 128-bit numbers = 16 bytes.
> 
> You are out to lunch and you dragged me with you. Did we have beer at 
> least? :-)

Sounds like at least 4 and a couple of chasers.

> 
> Cheers,
> mark
> 
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> Mark Mielke <mark@mielke.cc>
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