2011/1/5 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 2011, at 1:31 AM, Radosław Smogura wrote:
>>
>>> * simple to generate, and 128bit random is almost globally unique,
>>
>> Almost? Should be totally unique, as long as your random source is decent quality.
>
> But I would never rely on that alone. You always have a strategy in
> place, in case there's a duplicate.
As long as all your UUIDs are generated with the same algorithm, they
are guaranteed to be unique.
