Re: Drawbacks of using BYTEA for PK?

David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com>

From: David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-01-13T09:20:09Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Alex Satrapa wrote:
> As long as you don't use RFC1918 addresses, the IPv4 address(es) of the 
> host should be unique for the Internet. Append/prepend a 32 bit 
> timestamp and you have a 64bit unique identifier that is "universally" 
> unique (to one second).

Remember that /sbin/ifconfig output usually include MAC address too. Not 
that MAC addresses are 100% unique, but that should increase the uniqueness.

-- 
dave