Re: Usage of UUID with 8.3 (Windows)

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Figure out how to build ossp-uuid on Windows ...
> >
> > I think Windows has its own UUID generator, so the best bet would be to
> > make that work.
>
> Only if it can be made to present the same SQL-level API as we have for
> OSSP.  Otherwise we'll be faced with boatloads of platform-dependent
> client code ...

Indeed.  Linux, for example, also has "its own" UUID generator, but I 
intentionally used the OSSP library, because it is platform independent.

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Peter Eisentraut
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