Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008 schrieb nicoanto:
> > I am using the 8.3.1 version of PostgreSQL. I wrote a simple function on
> > order to generate UUID values using the UUID-OSSP module
> > The code of the function is the following one :
> >
> > CREATE FUNCTION uuidgen() RETURNS CHAR(36) AS $$
> > BEGIN
> > RETURN uuid_generate_v4()::CHAR(36);
> > END;
> > $$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
> >
> >
> >
> > When using it in a loop, I have got 2 different behaviors :
> > * on an Ubuntu platform, the generated UUID values are unique
> > * on a Windows platform, the generated UUID values are not unique most of
> > the time.
> >
> > Do you have any idea on how to fix that bug on a Windows platform ?
>
> Congratulations, you have just independently rediscovered the Debian OpenSSL
> vulnerability, see http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571. Get a new
> libssl package from the Ubuntu security repository. It's not a Windows bug;
> the numbers are supposed to be different.
Hmm, surely the problem is unrelated? He gets the same numbers on
_Windows_, whereas Ubuntu shows the good behavior.
Also, OOSP-UUID does not depend on OpenSSL AFAIR.
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