> > I think Windows has its own UUID generator, so the best bet would be to > > make that work. > > Only if it can be made to present the same SQL-level API as we have for > OSSP. Otherwise we'll be faced with boatloads of platform-dependent > client code ...
I'm just curious, but why aren't those features included in the Windows version in order to prevent platform-dependent development in that direction? The same Postgres version now essentially provides different features depending on the platform. I understand now that you just want to provide the facilities for UUID handling (datatype). You have to agree that a function to create a v4 UUID based on a randomly generated number (see MySQL: UUID()) would be useful though. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org