Re: Full GUID support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Should be in 9.0.5/9.1b3

On Sunday, July 3, 2011, Michael Gould
<mgould@intermodalsoftwaresolutions.net> wrote:
> Does this look to be something that will surface around for 9.1
>
> Sent from Samsung mobile
>
> Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>
>>On Sunday, July 3, 2011, Michael Gould
>><mgould@intermodalsoftwaresolutions.net> wrote:
>>&gt; Peter,
>>&gt;
>>&gt; I don't believe that the library that the contrib
module runs with can run
>>&gt; on Window 64 bit servers or even Windows 7 64 bit.
That is problem as most
>>&gt; shops are using 64 bit OS and if Window the contrib module is
>>going to fail.
>>&gt;  Taking the responsibility to handle this internally
means that you can
>>&gt; write your own implementation not based on a libary
that can't handle
>>&gt; Windows 64 bit.
>>
>>The next release of the installers will, now that we have a 64 Windows
>>port of ossp-uuid.
>>
>>Even If that weren't the case, integrating the type wouldn't fix the
>>problem anyway, unless you're suggesting we implement our own UUID
>>generator (which isn't nearly as straightforward as it might seem, as
>>I understand it)..
>>
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