Re: Drawbacks of using BYTEA for PK?

Karsten Hilbert <karsten.hilbert@gmx.net>

From: Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-01-14T08:47:03Z
Lists: pgsql-general
> >Remember that /sbin/ifconfig output usually include MAC address too. Not 
> >that MAC addresses are 100% unique, but that should increase the 
> >uniqueness.
> 
> How do you increase uniqueness?  Either a value is unique or it isn't - 
It increases the *likelihood* of uniqueness, IOW the expected
collision frequency.

> if you've got multiple hosts on the network with the same network 
> address, you're in big trouble!
He is talking about the MAC which in itself is supposed to be
globally unique. Nothing to do with IP numbers.

Karsten
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