Re: [PATCH] Replacement for OSSP-UUID for Linux and BSD - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: [PATCH] Replacement for OSSP-UUID for Linux and BSD
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Msg-id 57B6841E-44BF-4D20-B36D-7A61C352926F@justatheory.com
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Replacement for OSSP-UUID for Linux and BSD  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On May 26, 2014, at 9:30 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

>> How about --with-unix-uuid? Or --with-ext2-uuid?
>
> Meh.  "Unix" certainly subsumes BSD, so that doesn't seem like a very
> useful distinction.  I guess we could use "ext2" but that would just
> confuse most people.

--with-uuid?

>> Which one is the default -- or is there one?
>
> The point here is that we won't make a default choice.

So no UUID functions by default, which I guess has been the case all along?

Always seemed weird to me that there was a core configure option specific to a contrib module.

D


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