On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:29:34PM +0200, Harald Armin Massa wrote: > I would really like PostgreSQL to include an uuid-generation function > crafted along the recommendations in rfc4122 or ISO/IEC 9834-8; so those > UUIDs have a "ISO/IEC-defined uniqueness" or at least a "ISO/IEC-defined > extreme likelyness to be unique"
The code to get things like the MAC address is going to be a pile of very OS specific code, which I really don't think is in the realm of code postgresql wants to maintain. The easier and better solution is to include a module in contrib (at best) that calls some standard cross-platform library to do the job. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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