On 1/17/07, Patrick Earl <patearl(at)patearl(dot)net> wrote:
>
> Certainly support for the GUID field type itself is most important.
> As for the generators, though they are non-essential, they are very
> useful. Other platforms and libraries have standardized on uuid
> generators, so I don't see why PostgreSQL can't.
Maybe I am oblivious to the reason, but why is there a need for a special
data type for GUID/UUIDs? Wouldn't you always be doing an "equality"
anyways? Wouldn't a varchar suffice?
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Chad
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