Neil Conway wrote:
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 18:28 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
The problem is that most of the standard methods are platform dependent, as
they require MAC addresses or a "good" random source, for instance.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-01/msg00392.php
ISTM random() or similar sources is a sufficient PSRNG for the purposes
of UUID generation -- I can't see anything in the RFC that would
contradict that.
How about we set up a contrib (I wish we'd fixed that) module with an
example function or two?
cheers
andrew
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