UUID's as primary keys

From: Thomas Hallgren <thomas(at)tada(dot)se>
To: Psql_General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: UUID's as primary keys
Date: 2006-06-28 07:01:49
Message-ID: 44A2295D.7000709@tada.se
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I'm building an app where I have several entities that are identified
using a UUID (i.e. a 128 bit quantity). My current implementation uses a
composite primary key consisting of two int8 values. It's a bit
cumbersome and I would much rather have a distinct type. An earlier
implementation using Oracle mapped the UUID to a RAW(16) but PostgreSQL
doesn't have that and the BYTEA adds extra overhead.

What would be the best (as in most efficient) mapping for a 128 bit
primary key?

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren

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