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>
>From : "peter_jacobi.rm" <peter_jacobi@...>
>To : firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
>Date : 07/09/2003 5:39:10 PM
>Subject : [firebird-support] Re: One Generator To Rule Them All
>
>Hi Sugi,
>
>--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, sugi <truesaint@c...> wrote:
>> What if we just use one generator for all table PKs in a database?
>> The obvious problem is the limit of 32bit integers, which is plenty,
>but
>> not inexhaustible.
>
>The is 64 bit in Firebird. 32 bit was in ye olde times.
>
>Other candidates, to be accessed by UDFs for now:
>
>RDTSC (Pentium Timestamp Counter) 64 bit
>
>UUID (Universally Unique IDentifier) 128 bit,
>use char(16) character set OCTETS.
>
>Regards,
>Peter Jacobi
>

Where are these UDF's available.
Are they usable across Windows and Linux

GK

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