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Subject: Re: [DOCS] uuid type not documented
From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Gevik Babakhani <pgdev@xs4all.nl>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
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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.

-Neil