Re: ossp-uuid Contrib Patch

On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 20:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com> writes:
> > Well given that OSSP seems to be abandon ware (no activity since July 2008), it might be time to dump it in favor
ofsomething else.
 
> 
> Yeah, maybe.  It doesn't even seem to be the "standard" implementation
> on Linux or Mac.  A bit of research says that Theodore Ts'o's libuuid
> is what comes native with the OS on those platforms.  No idea whether
> the functionality is equivalent, though.

They have different interfaces that would also affect the exposed SQL
interfaces.  We could provide two different extensions, wrapping each
library.