Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47A722E002C for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:20:47 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 88361-09 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:20:46 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 476592E0030 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:20:46 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2008 15:20:44 -0000 Received: from xdsl-87-79-142-134.netcologne.de (EHLO colt.pezone.net) [87.79.142.134] by mail.gmx.net (mp017) with SMTP; 17 Feb 2008 16:20:44 +0100 X-Authenticated: #495269 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19HnwA+GxhHKz4DYDwGoMDqYkZxndg8duY2RPDVFM XpGVbUwaU13ZdT From: Peter Eisentraut To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Usage of UUID with 8.3 (Windows) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:20:40 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: Tom Lane , Alvaro Herrera , ncode@gmx.com References: <20080211102557.118950@gmx.net> <20080211170412.GB13934@alvh.no-ip.org> <3844.1202751300@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <3844.1202751300@sss.pgh.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802171620.41949.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200802/139 X-Sequence-Number: 30230 Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera 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/