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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #4167: When generating UUID using UUID-OSSP module, UUIDs are not unique on Windows
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Msg-id 20735.1210781660@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #4167: When generating UUID using UUID-OSSP module, UUIDs are not unique on Windows  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> 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.

>> Also, OOSP-UUID does not depend on OpenSSL AFAIR.

> Written by the same guy anyway. :-/

Well, in any case this is surely a bug in the Windows port of
libossp-uuid, and so needs to be reported to them not us.

            regards, tom lane

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