| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: 9.4 Proposal: Initdb creates a single table |
| Date: | 2014-04-24 06:59:06 |
| Message-ID: | CA+U5nM+5VQnY8EKzGXat19P=FBdTx5+Y2ai-hJRzopV=bckr5Q@mail.gmail.com |
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On 24 April 2014 05:32, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 08:27:52PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
>> > Is there any good reason not to roll native UUID generation into
>> > our standard distribution?
>>
>> It's already there (as of 9.4) in pg_crypto.
>
> Sorry I wasn't clear enough.
>
> Since contrib/pgcrypto is a module that might well not be installed,
> people can't just build software for PostgreSQL and have UUIDs
> available, certainly not in the sense that, for example, BIGSERIAL is.
+1 to include in core - strange to have a UUID datatype in core but no
means to generate
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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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