Re: GUIDs - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: GUIDs
Date
Msg-id 20031115041833.GB10588@wolff.to
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In response to Re: GUIDs  (David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 17:52:41 -0500,
  David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:
> On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 12:04  AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
> >Couldn't you use numeric? That should be fairly portable.
>
> Not really. The GUID is 128 bits, which doesn't work so well on 32-bit
> systems.

On postgres numeric isn't limited to what can be represented in 32 bits.
I am not sure about other systems, but I would expect it to not be limited
to just 32 bits on them either.

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