| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, Matteo Beccati <php(at)beccati(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Replacement for OSSP-UUID for Linux and BSD |
| Date: | 2014-05-29 13:45:27 |
| Message-ID: | 9449.1401371127@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2014-05-29 08:49:38 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Well, we could have just hacked up that particular header check to do
>> what we want.
> Still wouldn't have solved that ossp already didn't work on several
> platforms at all anymore and is likely to work on even fewer in 5 years.
Yeah. The problem is not with the header check, it's with the fact that
OSSP UUID is basically broken on several modern platforms.[1] We were
going to have to do something about that pretty soon anyway. I agree that
this isn't the most ideal time in the dev cycle to do something about it,
but fixing portability issues is one of the expected beta-time activities,
no? That's really what this is.
regards, tom lane
[1] Quite aside from compilation problems, yesterday's testing results
suggest that it can't read the system MAC address at all on Debian:
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/29063.1401333825@sss.pgh.pa.us
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