On Jan 5, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: > As long as all your UUIDs are generated with the same algorithm, they > are guaranteed to be unique. There is no requirement that they be generated with the same algorithm in order to be unique. A MAC/time-based UUID cannot duplicate a random one, and vice versa. (Also applies to the 3rd flavor of UUID whose details I do not remember.) -- Scott Ribe scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general