Re: GUIDs - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Doug McNaught
Subject Re: GUIDs
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Msg-id 871xsatu7d.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org
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In response to Re: GUIDs  (David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>)
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Re: GUIDs
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David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> writes:

> On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 12:04  AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
> > Couldn't you use numeric? That should be fairly portable.
>
> Not really. The GUID is 128 bits, which doesn't work so well on 32-bit
> systems.

NUMERIC is an arbitrary-precision integer, not a machine word.

-Doug

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