From: Sven Sporer <ncode@gmx.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Usage of UUID with 8.3 (Windows)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:41 +0100
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> > I think Windows has its own UUID generator, so the best bet would be to
> > make that work.
>
> Only if it can be made to present the same SQL-level API as we have for
> OSSP. Otherwise we'll be faced with boatloads of platform-dependent
> client code ...
I'm just curious, but why aren't those features included in the Windows version in order to prevent platform-dependent development in that direction? The same Postgres version now essentially provides different features depending on the platform.
I understand now that you just want to provide the facilities for UUID handling (datatype). You have to agree that a function to create a v4 UUID based on a randomly generated number (see MySQL: UUID()) would be useful though.
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