On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 08:46:18 pm Scott Ribe wrote: > On Jan 5, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > Each machine would have a unique machine_id. This would guarantee > > uniqueness and be very easy to maintain. > > And if somebody clones the disk to a new machine, but leaves the old one in > service? Or do you use the MAC address and hope that's unique? That would be a matter of incompetent administration. *NOTHING* can protect against that. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general