[Zope3-Users] Re: RFC 4122 UUIDs

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:12:26PM -0400, Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 April 2007 14:34, Derek Richardson wrote:
> > I believe that that will not guarantee a *universally* unique id, but
> > only an id unique within that ZODB. Am I wrong?
> 
> Well, intid guarantees to be unique for this Zope instance, even accross 
> multiple databases conencted to this Zope instance. All you have to do is to 
> id the Zope instance, for example, ip+port should suffice.

I'd imagine collisions are likely when ip+port is 192.168.1.1:8080.

Marius Gedminas
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