Re: Full GUID support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Full GUID support
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Msg-id 4E1C98C3.2050109@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Full GUID support  (Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>)
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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?

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com


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