Re: Is randomblob(16) a good guid generation across multiple computers?

Richard Hipp <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:51:03 -0500
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On 2/20/20, Keith Medcalf <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> randomblob(16) does not generate a valid UUID (it does not set the version
> and variant flags in the resulting 16-bytes of random data).

If you need a UUID in the "standard format", rather than just an ID
that its universally unique, you can use the uuid.c extension:
https://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/5bb2264c1b64d163


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D. Richard Hipp
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