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

From: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Mark Mielke" <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>, "Pg Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats
Date: 2008-10-10 20:05:30
Message-ID: 162867790810101305sad3fc81l673032be8c021a21@mail.gmail.com
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2008/10/10 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> Is it problem do for non standard UUID formats pgfoundry project?
>
> I'm not volunteering set up a pgfoundry project to maintain something
> that can be accomplished with a patch that adds 19 lines of new code
> (and removes 9). This functionality is useful in core because it will
> Just Work. If you have to grope through pgfoundry to find it, you
> might as well write your own 19 lines of code.
>

I dislike all own creatures - because nobody will understand so do
some wrong thing - using non standard formats is bad thing. So it's is
necessary, then who need it then he found it on pgfoundry. But why
smudge core?

Pavel

> ...Robert
>

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