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

[Martin Perina]

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
>



-- 
Martin Perina
Associate Manager, Software Engineering
Red Hat Czech s.r.o.
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