Am Dienstag, 10. April 2007 17:30 schrieb Neil Conway:
> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:24 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > The new uuid type is lacking documentation.
>
> We had also talked about including some UUID generation functionality in
> 8.3, but it should be okay to leave that for 8.4.
The problem is that most of the standard methods are platform dependent, as
they require MAC addresses or a "good" random source, for instance. I'm not
sure how we wanted to solve that, but certainly leaving the uuid type with
*no* method to generate one is pretty poor.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/