From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: nathan wagner <nw@hydaspes.if.org>
Subject: Re: uuid type for postgres
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 09:45:17 -0700
Message-ID: <200509070945.17916.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050907051508.GA3572@granicus.if.org>
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Nathan,
> > - linking against libuuid is fine for a contrib/ extension, but no
> > good for a built-in type. A real uuid would have to do a proper
> > independent implementation of uuid creation within pgsql.
>
> Why?
I think the issue is portability. Remember that this type needs to work on
Windows as well as all POSIX platforms and AIX.
> I'm not sure what the default build instructions are, but i've got
> the following on my linux box...
> Quite a list. I wonder what readline is doing there.
Readline is for PSQL command completion and history. As for the rest, they
are *optional* modules that apparently your RPM builder chose to include; I
build from source and my only dependencies are bison, flex, gcc and perl.
> It would appear that linking against libraries is just fine, I don't
> see that uuid is any different.
Is it portable to all platforms we support? How does it generate its machine
identifier?
One of the differences between an add-in and core code is support for all
PostgreSQL platforms.
--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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