Re: GUID for postgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

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 UUID is essentially a 16-byte number and in its canonical form a UUID may look like this:

       550E8400-E29B-11D4-A716-446655440000