Re: configure --with-uuid=bsd fails on NetBSD - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: configure --with-uuid=bsd fails on NetBSD
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Msg-id 3878757.1661045852@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: configure --with-uuid=bsd fails on NetBSD  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: configure --with-uuid=bsd fails on NetBSD
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2022-08-20 19:39:32 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> In the course of setting up a NetBSD buildfarm animal, I discovered
>> that this is a lie.

> Also recently reported as a bug: https://postgr.es/m/17358-89806e7420797025%40postgresql.org
> with a bunch of discussion.

Ah, I'd totally forgotten that thread :-(.  After Peter pointed
to the existence of new UUID format proposals, I kind of lost
interest in doing a lot of work to implement our own not-quite-
per-spec V1 generator.

> Perhaps we should make them error out instead? It doesn't seem helpful to
> just return something wrong...

Yeah, might be appropriate.

            regards, tom lane



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