Re: Globally Unique IDs? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mitch Vincent
Subject Re: Globally Unique IDs?
Date
Msg-id 00f001c0b949$c60fcf90$0b51000a@epox450
Whole thread Raw
In response to Globally Unique IDs?  ("Rose, Keith" <keithr@aiinet.com>)
List pgsql-general
You can get the same result I suppose if you just use the same sequence
across all your tables.. Is Oracle doing anything more than that? You could
even make a quick function to get the next value from a sequence and call it
SYS_GUID() -- just an idea :-)

Good luck!

-Mitch
Software development :
You can have it cheap, fast or working. Choose two.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rose, Keith" <keithr@aiinet.com>
To: "'PostgreSQL General'" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:42 PM
Subject: Globally Unique IDs?


> I am new to the mailing list, but not new to postgres.  I did search
through
> the mail-list archives, and didn't find an answer to this question.
Oracle
> has a concept of a "globally unique ID" which can be gotten from their
> function call SYS_GUID().  Is there any plan to implement this (or
something
> analogous) in a future version of Postgres?
>
> --
> Keith Rose (ext. 2144)
>
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
>


pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Bruno Wolff III
Date:
Subject: Re: Memory Tuning
Next
From: Soma Interesting
Date:
Subject: RE: dynamic field names in a function.