GnuCash GUIDs vs. RFC 4122 UUIDs

[Josh Sled]

Robert Fleming <fleminra at gmail.com> writes:
> I have my GnuCash data in a PostgreSQL database, using GnuCash 2.3.8.  I'm
> writing/using external programs (Python) to manipulate the data, including
> inserting new data.  It is cumbersome for that software to invoke
> gnucash-make-guids to make the new GUIDs.

GUIDs are just random data expressed in hex.  The GnuCash impl is the
hex encoding of the bytes resulting from a forward-chaining MD5 hash of
some random bytes obtained during runtime initialization. Any similar
mechanism to create a random number should be fine.

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