> After someone in IRC asked if there was an equivalent to MySQL's
> server_id, it was noted that we do have a system identifier but it's not
> very accessible.
>
> The attached patch implements a pg_system_identifier() function that
> exposes it.
Would it make sense for such identifiers be standard UUID
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID)?
Should there be a UUID per cluster? and/or per database, possibly deduce
from the cluster one? Should it be configurable, say from
"postgresql.conf"?
get_pg_uuid() get_pg_uuid('template0')
Note that there is a set of uuid functions provided as a module that may
help.
--
Fabien.