[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#693207: GEN_UUID returns non RFC-4122-compliant UUIDs

Damyan Ivanov dmn at debian.org
Wed Nov 14 09:20:23 UTC 2012


Source: firebird2.5
Version: 2.5.0
Severity: important
Tags: upstream fixed-upstream
Forwarded: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-3238

According to RFC-4122 the first digit of the third block should be the version 
of the UUID. Firebird generates random data there (on non-windows):

SQL> SELECT uuid_to_char(gen_uuid()) FROM RDB$DATABASE;
7B8CBD7D-51DE-E64C-92A8-E6BD399DDAB6
F32B5797-5936-9F4F-B65A-191BD6287D9E
9FC254DD-F584-7043-89B2-ABB62CBF58A8


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash



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