Re: Patch for UUID datatype (beta) - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> - new_guid() function is supported. This function is based on V4 random
> uuid value. It generated 16 random bytes with uuid 'variant' and
> 'version'. It is not guaranteed to produce unique values

Isn't guaranteed uniqueness the very attribute that's expected? AFAIK
there's a commonly accepted algorithm providing this.

Regards,
Andreas