Re: Full GUID support

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Full GUID support
Date: 2011-07-12 16:15:39
Message-ID: 4E1C732B.10101@dunslane.net
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On 07/12/2011 12:03 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 07/03/2011 11:54 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On sön, 2011-07-03 at 13:42 -0500, Michael Gould wrote:
>>> I would like to request that full support for the UUID data type can
>>> added.
>>> I think that even though there is a contrib module, since this is a
>>> standard
>>> datatype that Postgres ought to be the one actually assigning the
>>> value.
>>
>> What difference would that make? In 9.1, you can easily load the
>> required extension, and there'd be no difference from a built-in
>> variant.
>>
>
> It is about usability folks.

What about extensions makes them less usable?

cheers

andrew

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