From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: nathan wagner <nw@hydaspes.if.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: uuid type for postgres
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:52:35 -0400
Message-ID: <28579.1126115555@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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nathan wagner <nw@hydaspes.if.org> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:45:17AM -0700, josh@agliodbs.com wrote:
>> How does it generate its machine identifier?
> No idea. Does it matter? Not having to fret this kind of detail is
> the advantage of using someone else's library.
It absolutely matters, because without knowing that we can have no idea
what sort of portability issues we might face with it. I don't buy the
"not having to fret" line in the least.
regards, tom lane
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