Re: Add uuid_to_base32hex() and base32hex_to_uuid() built-in functions

Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)tigerdata(dot)com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the patch.
>
>> That does seem like a better fit. It's used mainly in recv functions,
>> which this basically is (but user-callable).
>>
>> Updated patch attaced.
>
> Perhaps bytea_uuid() should check the UUID format. Consider the
> following example:
>
> SELECT uuid_extract_version('\x019a2f859cedffffb99d9c55044a2563'::bytea::uuid);
> uuid_extract_version
> ----------------------
> 15

The UUID input function doesn't do any such validation, so I don't see
why the cast should behave any differently:

# select '019a2f859cedffffb99d9c55044a2563'::uuid;
┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ uuid │
├──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 019a2f85-9ced-ffff-b99d-9c55044a2563 │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘

# select uuid_extract_version('019a2f859cedffffb99d9c55044a2563'::uuid);
┌──────────────────────┐
│ uuid_extract_version │
├──────────────────────┤
│ 15 │
└──────────────────────┘
(1 row)

> There is no UUID version 15 according to RFC 9562, and the
> documentation for uuid_extract_version() says:

There's no version 15 specified _yet_.

> """
> Extracts the version from a UUID of the variant described by RFC 9562.
> For other variants, this function returns null. For example, for a
> UUID generated by gen_random_uuid, this function will return 4.
> """
>
> If I read this correctly, either bytea_uuid() should reject this, or
> uuid_extract_version() should be modified to return NULL, or the
> documentation for uuid_extract_version() should be altered.

Future RFCs could define new versions of this variant, which we should
not reject or pretend don't have a version , just because we haven't
heard of them yet. In fact, RFC 9562 defines two new versions, v7 and
v8, which by this argument PostgreSQL versions before 18 should reject.

- ilmari