Re: Proposal: OID wraparound: summary and proposal

Neil Tiffin wrote:
> 
> I would just like to comment that for our project, GNU Enterprise, we
> use our own 128 bit object ID that is unique (UUID) for every row in
> all tables.
> 
> It seems to me, without having looked into it, that having both a
> PostgreSQL UID  and our own 128 bit objectid (UUID) is redundant and
> slows the whole process down.  But we are storing object data in the
> database and require and absolutely unique objectid.  We are planning
> for enterprise usage and expect to need 128 bits to uniquely define
> our objects.

Is it just an 128-bit int from a sequence or does it have some internal 
structure ?

What kind of enterprise do you expect to have more than 
18 446 744 073 709 551 615 of objects that can uniquely be identified 
by 64 bits ?

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Hannu