Re: ossp-uuid Contrib Patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: ossp-uuid Contrib Patch
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Msg-id B87891BC-7AC4-451F-AE0C-F2A5B3AF964F@justatheory.com
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In response to Re: ossp-uuid Contrib Patch  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Sep 10, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:

>> Yeah, maybe.  It doesn't even seem to be the "standard" implementation
>> on Linux or Mac.  A bit of research says that Theodore Ts'o's libuuid
>> is what comes native with the OS on those platforms.  No idea whether
>> the functionality is equivalent, though.
>
> They have different interfaces that would also affect the exposed SQL
> interfaces.  We could provide two different extensions, wrapping each
> library.

Yes, I think the question becomes how much pg wants to depend on abandonware for its contrib extensions.

Best,

David


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