Re: Proposal for GUID datatype

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 09:24:19PM -0400, Jan de Visser wrote:
> On Friday 08 September 2006 15:18, Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> > 2a) Three input formats are supported.
> > example:
> > insert into tbl (fld) values('1dfb39af-b56a-40b8-a903-b5b31567c3ce');
> > insert into tbl (fld) values('{1dfb39af-b56a-40b8-a903-b5b31567c3ce}');
> > insert into tbl (fld) values('1dfb39afb56a40b8a903b5b31567c3ce');
> Please extend your list. java's RMI package generates UIDs with the
> following format:

> [head order 21:19]$ bsh.sh
> BeanShell 1.3.0 - by Pat Niemeyer (pat@pat.net)
> bsh % print(new java.rmi.server.UID());
> 3b732da7:10d9029b3eb:-8000
> bsh %                                                                  

That doesn't look like a UUID/GUID - unless it trims leading zeroes?

UUID/GUID = 128-bits = 32 hexadecimal characters.

Cheers,
mark

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