Completely agreed. I can remove the function from the patch. The temptation was just too high not to include the new_guid() in the patch :)
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 10:33 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Isn't guaranteed uniqueness the very attribute that's expected? AFAIK > > there's a commonly accepted algorithm providing this. > > Anyone who thinks UUIDs are guaranteed unique has been drinking too much > of the kool-aid. They're at best probably unique. Some generator > algorithms might make it more probable than others, but you simply > cannot "guarantee" it for UUIDs generated on noncommunicating machines. > > One of the big reasons that I'm hesitant to put a UUID generation > function into core is the knowledge that none of them are or can be > perfect ... so people might need different ones depending on local > conditions. I'm inclined to think that a reasonable setup would put > the datatype (with input, output, comparison and indexing support) > into core, but provide a generation function as a contrib module, > making it easily replaceable. > > regards, tom lane > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
