| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon(at)adv-solutions(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Implement uuid_version() |
| Date: | 2019-04-08 21:06:39 |
| Message-ID: | 20190408210639.oloruy74tv3g6jxn@alap3.anarazel.de |
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Hi,
On 2019-04-08 11:06:57 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> That's not really a compelling reason, though, because anybody who
> needs UUIDs can always install the extension. And on the other hand,
> if we moved UUID support into core, then we'd be adding a hard compile
> dependency on one of the UUID facilities, which might annoy some
> developers. We could possibly work around that by implementing our
> own UUID facilities in core, but I'm not volunteering to do the work,
> and I'm not sure that the work has enough benefit to justify the
> labor.
The randomness based UUID generators don't really have dependencies, now
that we have a dependency on strong randomness. I kinda thing the
dependency argument actually works *against* uuid-ossp - precisely
because of its dependencies (which also vary by OS) it's not a proper
replacement for a type of facility a very sizable fraction of our users
need.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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