Re: [GENERAL] GUID for postgreSQL

2005-07-28 Thread Christopher Weimann
On 07/28/2005-05:55AM, Stefan 'Kaishakunin' Schumacher wrote: > > I was a little bit confused about the uniqueness of GUID (esp. using > only 16 Bit [1]) and read the article about the UUID: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_Unique_Identifier > 16 BYTE not bit. From the wiki... A U

Re: [GENERAL] Wish: remove ancient constructs from Postgres

2006-02-27 Thread Christopher Weimann
On 02/26/2006-10:36AM, Andrus Moor wrote: > > It is difficult to write standard-compliant code in Postgres. > There are a lot of constructs which have SQL equivalents but are still used > widely, even in samples in docs! > > For example, there are suggestions using > > now()::CHAR!=foo > > whil