On 4/10/07, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
FYI: good random source is already available in pgcrypto,
it uses either OpenSSL RAND_bytes() o
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2007-04-10 15:49:08 -0400:
> 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.
> >>
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
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
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.ph
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 simila
"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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. I'm not
>> sure how we wanted to solve that, but certainly leaving the uuid
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Am Dienstag, 10. April 2007 17:30 schrieb Neil Conway:
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:24 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
The new uuid type is lacking documentation.
We had also talked about including some UUID generation functionality in
8.3, but it should be okay to leave tha
Am Dienstag, 10. April 2007 17:30 schrieb Neil Conway:
> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:24 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > The new uuid type is lacking documentation.
>
> We had also talked about including some UUID generation functionality in
> 8.3, but it should be okay to leave that for 8.4.
The p
