Neil Conway wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 17:57 +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > > I thought the consensus was to provide the only atatype initially and > > look into providing the generator functions later or via an external > > project (pgfoundry or contrib/). > > I don't think distributing the (portable) generator functions separately > makes a lot of sense. For the generation methods that just depend on > md5() or random(), we may as well include them in the backend if we're > going to include the rest of the UUID stuff. > > The MAC-based generator function could also be included in the backend, > actually: it just needs to take an argument of type "macaddr". It would > then be up to the user (and/or various pgfoundry and contrib/ modules) > to find a way to determine the local machine's MAC address, which > presumably can't be done reliably in a portable fashion.
I assume we could just allow the MAC address or some unique idenfier to be specified in postgesql.conf. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
