Re: UUID column as pimrary key?

On Wednesday 5. January 2011 16.05.29 Bill Moran wrote:

> Beyond that, the namespace size for a UUID is so incomprehensibly huge
> that the chance of two randomly generated UUIDs having the same value
> is incomprehensibly unlikely ... it is, however, not a 100% guarantee.

I can't help thinking of the «Birthday Paradox»:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

regards, Leif