David Busby wrote:
> List,
> I'm trying to build a function for PostgreSQL that allows me to
> create a new UUID for data in my datbase. Has anyone had experience
> with this one? I was going to store it as a bytea datatype, would a
> char(32) be better? Any Ideas?
>
If your table will be very large, using bytea will save a fair amount of
space. Other possibilities are to encode the data into base64 or hex and
store in a TEXT (or VARCHAR or CHAR()) field.
Joe