Re: BUG #4167: When generating UUID using UUID-OSSP module, UUIDs are not unique on Windows - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008 schrieb Alvaro Herrera:
> > Hmm, surely the problem is unrelated?  He gets the same numbers on
> > _Windows_, whereas Ubuntu shows the good behavior.
>
> Oh, I read it backwards.  So then the random number generator on Windows is
> the problem in this case.

Right.

Actually what I would suggest is using the Windows API for generating
UUIDs instead of OOSP-UUID.

> > Also, OOSP-UUID does not depend on OpenSSL AFAIR.
>
> Written by the same guy anyway. :-/

Oh, right ...

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