Neil Conway wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 18:28 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> The problem is that most of the standard methods are platform dependent, as
>> they require MAC addresses or a "good" random source, for instance.
>>
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-01/msg00392.php
>
> ISTM random() or similar sources is a sufficient PSRNG for the purposes
> of UUID generation -- I can't see anything in the RFC that would
> contradict that.
>
>
How about we set up a contrib (I wish we'd fixed that) module with an
example function or two?
cheers
andrew