From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Full GUID support |
Date: | 2011-07-12 19:13:08 |
Message-ID: | 4E1C9CC4.4060801@commandprompt.com |
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On 07/12/2011 11:56 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Thom,
>
>> The functions to produce UUIDs are in contrib, but the UUID data type
>> itself is in core. You get the type uuid whether you install the
>> contrib module or not.
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-uuid.html
>
> Oh!
>
> I guess that shows you how much I use the type then.
>
> Well, in that case, this whole discussion is moot unless someone is
> offering to write us a UUID generator from scratch. Is someone doing so?
I am reaching back into my mental archives for when we first decided to
implement a UUID datatype. As I recall we purposely did not include the
generators in core because every language already has their own
generators, popular languages anyway.
I think we should just leave it as be, note to use your native language
generator OR use the contributed modules.
JD
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