Re: Analogue to SQL Server UniqueIdentifier? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Analogue to SQL Server UniqueIdentifier?
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Msg-id 3845.1203437227@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Analogue to SQL Server UniqueIdentifier?  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> Lack of support for Windows, which it sounds like the OP might be running?

> That's something that's been on my agenda for a while. There are certainly
> UUID generation functions available on Windows - at least for some of the
> cases supported by uuid-ossp. If I were to write the same functions for
> that one, where would people prefer that to go - in the uuid-ossp module
> even though that's actually not correct (since it wouldn't be using ossp)
> or a separate module uuid-win32?

The latter is *completely* unacceptable.  The entire point here is to
not expose any differences at the SQL level.

Why can't ossp be used --- is it impossible to port to Windows?

            regards, tom lane

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