Re: TODO item: GUID

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:29:15PM +0200, Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> For developing the GUID datatype, I was wondering if I could use the
> sample code from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt (hate to reinvent
> the wheel)
>
> The code has a copyright which says: "use and modify as you wish but
> include the copyright notice with your code"

Do you really want to copy the code verbatim? I mean, there's a lot of
stuff which would need quite a bit of massaging to get working in
postgres. I'd say just look at it, understand it, and then write
something that will work. The copyright won't matter then.

BTW, I seem to remember something about the stuff in the RFC not being
good for some reason, not unique enough or too predictable. Do you know
anything about that?

Have a nice day,
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