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 E6AC60F0-4521-4380-9D10-858362E3FB2F@justatheory.com
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In response to Re: ossp-uuid Contrib Patch  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: ossp-uuid Contrib Patch  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: ossp-uuid Contrib Patch  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Re: ossp-uuid Contrib Patch  (Nathan Wagner <nw@hydaspes.if.org>)
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On Sep 10, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> The long and the short of it is that the OSSP guys need to fix their
> code.  I'm not excited about kluges like
>
>> +#define _XOPEN_SOURCE
>
> which might band-aid around their mistake, but at what price?  We have
> no idea what side-effects that will have.  It would not be unlikely
> for that to result in an ossp-uuid.so that is subtly incompatible with
> the core backend.  (We've seen such effects in the past, though I'm too
> lazy to trawl the archives for examples right now.)

Well given that OSSP seems to be abandon ware (no activity since July 2008), it might be time to dump it in favor of
somethingelse. 

Best,

David




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