Re: patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

2008/10/10 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc> writes:
>> Anyways - I only somewhat disagree. I remember the original discussions,
>> and I remember agreeing with the points to keep PostgreSQL UUID support
>> thin and rigid. It's valuable for it to be built-in to the database.
>> It's not necessarily valuable for PostgreSQL to support every UUID
>> version or every format. Supporting additional formats is the direction
>> of supporting every UUID format. Three months from now, somebody is
>> going to propose allowing '-' or ':'. What should the answer be then?
>
> Well, this discussion started with the conventional wisdom about "be
> conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept". I'd
> still resist emitting any UUID format other than the RFC-approved one,
> but I don't see anything very wrong in being able to read common
> variants.

Is it problem do for non standard UUID formats pgfoundry project?

Regards
Pavel Stehule
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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