Re: [GENERAL] UUID's as primary keys

From: Thomas Hallgren <thomas(at)tada(dot)se>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] UUID's as primary keys
Date: 2006-07-06 20:02:44
Message-ID: 44AD6C64.5070004@tada.se
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Greg Stark wrote:

> In answer to your question, though my opinion carries no special weight at
> all, I would suggest adding a bare bones 16-byte data type to core and a
> second binary-compatible data type based on it that parsed/output as uuids.
> The extended uuid libraries should only go in pgfoundry/contrib.
>
I second that.

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren

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