On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 02:55:19PM -0500, Arthur Fuller wrote: > > Is there in *nix an implementation of GUIDs? If the MS math is too > be believed, GUIDs are guaranteed unique for the next century. No > matter how many monkeys are at the typewriters. Supposing a) that > there is a *nix GUID implementation, what's the right column type to > use within MyISAM and InnoDB? Assuming that anyone besides me finds > this interesting, will MySQL ever support GUID column types?
That was one of the topics that came up this summer when I chatted with Monty & crew about replication and auto-increment ideas. He seemed open to the idea but didn't commit to implementing anything. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 3.23.51: up 15 days, processed 555,361,246 queries (410/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
