| From: | John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com> |
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| To: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
| Cc: | "Gordon Hyatt" <Gordon(dot)Hyatt(at)joslin(dot)harvard(dot)edu>, <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: UUID generation functions |
| Date: | 2008-06-02 22:11:47 |
| Message-ID: | 9B722936-625A-4366-B119-6AA178372E48@pgedit.com |
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On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Any chance of going to 8.3?
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/datatype-uuid.html
But 8.3 still does not generate UUIDs, only stores/compares them. From
the link above:
> PostgreSQL provides storage and comparison functions for UUIDs, but
> the core database does not include any function for generating
> UUIDs, because no single algorithm is well suited for every
> application.
For reasons mentioned by the other poster, it would be helpful if
PostgreSQL could generate them. Is there really more than 2 or 3
needed options where it would be huge code bloat to include sufficient
alternatives?
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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