Received: from localhost (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E9809FB46A for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:46:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20709-06 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:46:50 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.241]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DFE09FB460 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:46:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so94453ana for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:46:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AXZRXDaX0KtnKZNICF2wEk20L+ExLOH3LWuEupaF+9Gg8D260jSoaB2eYKwDGaJCCR174CQ21Nerph1pUR7b7HW+sO+vo2wb3IBpZ4F7taOwMh12WkL92iov3uapPzv1Qry2gkES34Gmfyw2HvTq0kd5Ghv56u54IyTWZpc3e9w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=sVP8z+gB4iGp1Ut0OWNmaMFWF93J9ZpIvA8LLM7q3blAxgd7AELN4rowtAWqXSnf1OK03kM0VoRXgVUkK6GhWXriB2iOBfjMsxMF7vL9+xb35HA5ePiub2ibBk3x2uOXJ9VXfs+BYgumGD7Y9/ogfoETRqXX+hxSHY/6vSzTG5w= Received: by 10.114.80.4 with SMTP id d4mr137468wab.1176274011514; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:46:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.107.5 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:46:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:46:51 +0300 From: "Marko Kreen" To: "Peter Eisentraut" Subject: Re: [DOCS] uuid type not documented Cc: "Neil Conway" , "Gevik Babakhani" , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <200704101828.58118.peter_e@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200704101724.27285.peter_e@gmx.net> <1176219030.6558.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200704101828.58118.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200704/478 X-Sequence-Number: 101811 On 4/10/07, 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. FYI: good random source is already available in pgcrypto, it uses either OpenSSL RAND_bytes() or internal strong PRNG. -- marko