Re: Proposal for GUID datatype

Just a few comments,

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 09:18:20PM +0200, Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> 5) support functions:
> because uuid could also be used as PK or unique values, additional
> function(s) will be available to produce a uuid value to be used in
> a field's default value like sequences or PL/pgSQL etc.. etc...
>
> example;
>
> create table tbl(
> ID uuid default ('new_uuid()'),
> ....
> );

That would be: ID uuid default new_uuid();

> typstorage = m // stored compressed inline

Compression is not going to work on such short values, the header will
almost longer, just use 'p' like every other fixed length type.

Have a nice day,
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