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From Neil Conway
Subject Re: [DOCS] uuid type not documented
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Msg-id 1176233452.6558.52.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: [DOCS] uuid type not documented  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: [DOCS] uuid type not documented  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Re: [DOCS] uuid type not documented  ("Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org>)
Re: [DOCS] uuid type not documented  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 18:28 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The problem is that most of the standard methods are platform dependent, as 
> they require MAC addresses or a "good" random source, for instance.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-01/msg00392.php

ISTM random() or similar sources is a sufficient PSRNG for the purposes
of UUID generation -- I can't see anything in the RFC that would
contradict that.

-Neil

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