Re: [PATCHES] Patch for UUID datatype (beta)

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:29:34PM +0200, Harald Armin Massa wrote:
> I would really like PostgreSQL to include an uuid-generation function
> crafted along the recommendations in rfc4122 or ISO/IEC 9834-8; so those
> UUIDs have a "ISO/IEC-defined uniqueness" or at least a "ISO/IEC-defined
> extreme likelyness to be unique"

The code to get things like the MAC address is going to be a pile of
very OS specific code, which I really don't think is in the realm of
code postgresql wants to maintain. The easier and better solution is to
include a module in contrib (at best) that calls some standard
cross-platform library to do the job.

Have a nice day,
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