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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:34:42 -0700
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
CC: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Gevik Babakhani <pgdev@xs4all.nl>,
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Subject: Re: [DOCS] uuid type not documented
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 10. April 2007 17:30 schrieb Neil Conway:
>> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:24 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> The new uuid type is lacking documentation.
>> We had also talked about including some UUID generation functionality in
>> 8.3, but it should be okay to leave that for 8.4.
> 
> The problem is that most of the standard methods are platform dependent, as 
> they require MAC addresses or a "good" random source, for instance.  I'm not 
> sure how we wanted to solve that, but certainly leaving the uuid type with 
> *no* method to generate one is pretty poor.

Actually, I would say that not having the ability to generate a UUID is 
just fine. Most languages, have the ability to generate them per their 
particular platforms. Let's leave it to them.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


> 


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