Re: Full GUID support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Gould
Subject Re: Full GUID support
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Msg-id 09lif71g7vankbkw38mei6f8.1309730122566@email.android.com
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In response to Full GUID support  (Michael Gould <mgould@intermodalsoftwaresolutions.net>)
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Does this look to be something that will surface around for 9.1

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Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

>On Sunday, July 3, 2011, Michael Gould
><mgould@intermodalsoftwaresolutions.net> wrote:
>> Peter,
>>
>> I don't believe that the library that the contrib module runs with can run
>> on Window 64 bit servers or even Windows 7 64 bit.  That is problem as most
>> shops are using 64 bit OS and if Window the contrib module is
>going to fail.
>>  Taking the responsibility to handle this internally means that you can
>> write your own implementation not based on a libary that can't handle
>> Windows 64 bit.
>
>The next release of the installers will, now that we have a 64 Windows
>port of ossp-uuid.
>
>Even If that weren't the case, integrating the type wouldn't fix the
>problem anyway, unless you're suggesting we implement our own UUID
>generator (which isn't nearly as straightforward as it might seem, as
>I understand it)..
>
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