On ِشخ, 2001-10-26 at 21:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I think most of you are missing the point here. > I'm missing nothing :) "uniqueidentifier" (128-bit unique value) data type fot PostgresSQL exists and is used at least by me. It utilizes functionality of uuid library from widely used in Linux e2fsprogs package. Uuid library itself can generate UUIDs with MAC/time but if /dev/urandom was detected the true random 16 bytes will be used by default. And yes, this type is great for primary keys.
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