Re: configure --with-uuid=bsd fails on NetBSD

Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>

From: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-09-09T14:54:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Hi,


On 8/26/22 19:21, Tom Lane wrote:
> Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> writes:
>> Based on these discussions, I attached a patch.
>
> I think the right fix is to call uuid_create and then actually check
> the version field of the result.  This avoids breaking what need not
> be broken, and it'd also guard against comparable problems on other
> platforms (so don't blame NetBSD specifically in the message, either).


I updated my patch. I checked version field in 'uuid_generate_internal' 
function instead of checking it in 'uuid_generate_v1' and 
'uuid_generate_v1mc' functions, but I have some questions:

1 - Should it be checked only for  '--with-uuid=bsd' option?
     1.1 - If it is needed to be checked only for '--with-uuid=bsd', 
should just NetBSD be checked?
2 - Should it error out without including current UUID version in the 
error message? General error message could mask if the 'uuid_create' 
function starts to produce UUIDs other than version-4.

Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz

Commits

  1. Reject bogus output from uuid_create(3).