Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD1C2E02FC for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:35:08 -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 76271-04 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:35:05 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 114262E02E9 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:35:04 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m1BHZ0Ps003845; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:35:00 -0500 (EST) To: Alvaro Herrera cc: ncode@gmx.com, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Usage of UUID with 8.3 (Windows) In-reply-to: <20080211170412.GB13934@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <20080211102557.118950@gmx.net> <2916.1202748993@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20080211170412.GB13934@alvh.no-ip.org> Comments: In-reply-to Alvaro Herrera message dated "Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:04:12 -0300" Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:35:00 -0500 Message-ID: <3844.1202751300@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200802/84 X-Sequence-Number: 30175 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 ... regards, tom lane