On Sep 10, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Yeah, maybe. It doesn't even seem to be the "standard" implementation
>> on Linux or Mac. A bit of research says that Theodore Ts'o's libuuid
>> is what comes native with the OS on those platforms. No idea whether
>> the functionality is equivalent, though.
>
> They have different interfaces that would also affect the exposed SQL
> interfaces. We could provide two different extensions, wrapping each
> library.
Yes, I think the question becomes how much pg wants to depend on abandonware for its contrib extensions.
Best,
David