[ovirt-devel] [rhev-devel] [IMPORTANT] getting rid of our implementation of UUID generation in 4.2.1

[Oved Ourfali]

Can you please update us on this thread once the patch is actually merged?

Thanks,
Oved

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Martin Perina <mperina at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Eli Mesika <emesika at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> We had decided to drop our UUID generation function from DB in 4.2.1 and
>> use the one provided by PG (using an extension)
>> Please note that once this patch [1] is merged , you will have to do the
>> following steps in your env in order that it will continue working.
>>
>> 1) make sure that the postgresql-contrib is installed on your machine
>> (yum/dnf install postgresql-contrib -y)
>>
>
> ​Just adding that package name is "postgresql-contrib" for Fedora and
> "rh-postgresql95-postgresql-contrib" for CentOS and it needs to be
> installed manually on engine developer's machines
> ​
>
>
>> 2) run the following command from psql prompt while logging in with a DB
>> admin (postgres) user
>>      a) DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS uuid_generate_v1();
>>      b) CREATE EXTENSION "uuid-ossp";'
>> 3) validate from psql prompt by :
>>
>> # select *  from pg_available_extensions where name = 'uuid-ossp' and
>> installed_version IS NOT NULL;
>>
>> You should get the following result
>>
>> -[ RECORD 1 ]-----+------------------------------------------------
>> name              | uuid-ossp
>> default_version   | 1.0
>> installed_version | 1.0
>> comment           | generate universally unique identifiers (UUIDs)
>>
>> Please contact me for any questions or problems you encounter after this
>> patch is merged to master.
>>
>> [1] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/84832/
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Eli Mesika
>>
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>
>
> --
> Martin Perina
> Associate Manager, Software Engineering
> Red Hat Czech s.r.o.
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