Re: [HACKERS] uuid-ossp (Re: [pgsql-packagers] Postgresapp 9.4 beta build ready)

2014-05-23 Thread Matteo Beccati
On 22/05/2014 21:55, Matteo Beccati wrote: On 22/05/2014 17:07, Tom Lane wrote: Well, *I* don't want to do that work. I was hoping to find a volunteer, but the silence has been notable. I think deprecation is the next step. This sounds an easy enough task to try and submit a patch, if I'm

Re: [HACKERS] uuid-ossp (Re: [pgsql-packagers] Postgresapp 9.4 beta build ready)

2014-05-23 Thread Matteo Beccati
On 23/05/2014 10:05, Matteo Beccati wrote: You can find the code here: https://github.com/mbeccati/uuid # NetBSD variant https://github.com/mbeccati/uuid/tree/linux # Ubuntu variant For now, I've forked just RhodiumToad's uuid-freebsd extension, but I've made sure make works fine when

Re: [HACKERS] uuid-ossp (Re: [pgsql-packagers] Postgresapp 9.4 beta build ready)

2014-05-22 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: I was intending to draft something more self-contained to present to -hackers, but since this is where we're at ... the quoted material omits a couple of important points: (1) People had been working around uuid-ossp's

Re: [HACKERS] uuid-ossp (Re: [pgsql-packagers] Postgresapp 9.4 beta build ready)

2014-05-22 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: So, having seen that proof-of-concept, I'm wondering if we shouldn't make an effort to support contrib/uuid-ossp with a choice of UUID libraries underneath it. There is a non-OSSP

Re: [HACKERS] uuid-ossp (Re: [pgsql-packagers] Postgresapp 9.4 beta build ready)

2014-05-22 Thread Matteo Beccati
On 22/05/2014 17:07, Tom Lane wrote: Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: So, having seen that proof-of-concept, I'm wondering if we shouldn't make an effort to support contrib/uuid-ossp with a choice of UUID libraries

Re: [HACKERS] uuid-ossp (Re: [pgsql-packagers] Postgresapp 9.4 beta build ready)

2014-05-22 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: So, having seen that proof-of-concept, I'm wondering if we shouldn't make an effort to support contrib/uuid-ossp

Re: [HACKERS] uuid-ossp (Re: [pgsql-packagers] Postgresapp 9.4 beta build ready)

2014-05-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 5/18/14, 12:28 AM, Tom Lane wrote: So, having seen that proof-of-concept, I'm wondering if we shouldn't make an effort to support contrib/uuid-ossp with a choice of UUID libraries underneath it. There is a non-OSSP set of UUID library functions available on Linux (libuuid from

Re: [HACKERS] uuid-ossp (Re: [pgsql-packagers] Postgresapp 9.4 beta build ready)

2014-05-17 Thread Tom Lane
Christoph Berg c...@df7cb.de writes: [redirecting to -hackers] Re: Tom Lane 2014-05-15 31008.1400180...@sss.pgh.pa.us Sandeep Thakkar sandeep.thak...@enterprisedb.com writes: Yes, Jakob is right. On 9.4, we had to patch configure script along with uuid-ossp.c to resolve the uuid issue. I