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