Re: Analogue to SQL Server UniqueIdentifier?

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> Lack of support for Windows, which it sounds like the OP might be running?

> That's something that's been on my agenda for a while. There are certainly
> UUID generation functions available on Windows - at least for some of the
> cases supported by uuid-ossp. If I were to write the same functions for
> that one, where would people prefer that to go - in the uuid-ossp module
> even though that's actually not correct (since it wouldn't be using ossp)
> or a separate module uuid-win32?

The latter is *completely* unacceptable.  The entire point here is to
not expose any differences at the SQL level.

Why can't ossp be used --- is it impossible to port to Windows?

            regards, tom lane