| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Matteo Beccati <php(at)beccati(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Replacement for OSSP-UUID for Linux and BSD |
| Date: | 2014-05-27 04:40:36 |
| Message-ID: | 57B6841E-44BF-4D20-B36D-7A61C352926F@justatheory.com |
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On May 26, 2014, at 9:30 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> How about --with-unix-uuid? Or --with-ext2-uuid?
>
> Meh. "Unix" certainly subsumes BSD, so that doesn't seem like a very
> useful distinction. I guess we could use "ext2" but that would just
> confuse most people.
--with-uuid?
>> Which one is the default -- or is there one?
>
> The point here is that we won't make a default choice.
So no UUID functions by default, which I guess has been the case all along?
Always seemed weird to me that there was a core configure option specific to a contrib module.
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