| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: 9.4 Proposal: Initdb creates a single table |
| Date: | 2014-04-24 04:32:41 |
| Message-ID: | 20140424043241.GB3443@fetter.org |
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 08:27:52PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > Is there any good reason not to roll native UUID generation into
> > our standard distribution?
>
> It's already there (as of 9.4) in pg_crypto.
Sorry I wasn't clear enough.
Since contrib/pgcrypto is a module that might well not be installed,
people can't just build software for PostgreSQL and have UUIDs
available, certainly not in the sense that, for example, BIGSERIAL is.
Cheers,
David.
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