Re: Using GUIDs

I have implemented GUID's in an application that needed them. We needed
globally unique PK's and although Postgres did not offer them as a datatype,
we used C# to perform that function. The Postgres database attribute ended
up being a varchar(39). Not as performant as having Postgres natively do it
but it works. :) The good thing is that the GUID is calculated before the
insert into the database so it's actually using the middle tier's resources
to compute it. (ok, it's a small amount but it's nice that the DB didn't
have to pay that price)

Paul

On 6/27/06, Jim Nasby <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 26, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Dennis Wagner wrote:
> > I'm currently thinking about using GUIDs as primary keys.
>
> Look on pgFoundry.org; I'm pretty sure there's some kind of UUID type
> there.
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