23.11.2013 14:12, Mario Weilguni kirjoitti:
Am 22.11.2013 16:15, schrieb Tom Lane:
[ memo to self: never, ever accept another contrib module whose name
isn't a plain SQL identifier ]
Well, in that case and since this is a rarely used extension (I guess
so), maybe it would be the best to simply rename that extension to
uuidossp (or whatever) and don't make any special treatment for it?
There are a couple of threads about issues with uuid-ossp (AIUI it's
abandonware at this point). If PostgreSQL had a proper PRNG with a
128-bit state it could just implement uuid_generate_v4() function in
core and most people could probably drop uuid-ossp.
I have a branch[1] which implements uuid_generate_v4 in core using
pg_lrand48, but since it only has 48 bits of state it's probably not an
acceptable replacement for uuid-ossp for now.
Is anyone working on a new PRNG for PostgreSQL at the moment?
/ Oskari
[1] https://github.com/saaros/postgres/compare/core-uuid-v4
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