From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: ncode@gmx.com
Subject: Re: Usage of UUID with 8.3 (Windows)
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:20:40 +0100
Message-ID: <200802171620.41949.peter_e@gmx.net> (raw)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Figure out how to build ossp-uuid on Windows ...
> >
> > 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 ...
Indeed. Linux, for example, also has "its own" UUID generator, but I
intentionally used the OSSP library, because it is platform independent.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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