On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Mike Christensen <m...@kitchenpc.com> wrote: > 2011/1/5 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryz...@gmail.com>: >> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Scott Ribe <scott_r...@elevated-dev.com> >> wrote: >>> On Jan 5, 2011, at 1:31 AM, Radosław Smogura wrote: >>> >>>> * simple to generate, and 128bit random is almost globally unique, >>> >>> Almost? Should be totally unique, as long as your random source is decent >>> quality. >> >> But I would never rely on that alone. You always have a strategy in >> place, in case there's a duplicate. > > As long as all your UUIDs are generated with the same algorithm, they > are guaranteed to be unique. >
Good luck with that .... -- GJ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
