Re: uuid type for postgres - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: uuid type for postgres
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Msg-id 18228.1126021137@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: uuid type for postgres  (mark@mark.mielke.cc)
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mark@mark.mielke.cc writes:
> My personal preference is that the type be called 'uuid' and accepted
> into the core. Tom? Is their history on this issue?
> Should it remain an extension, or can be get it built-in?

There is pretty much zero chance of being accepted into contrib, much
less core, if the code isn't pure BSD license.  (We used to be a bit
lax about that, but are trying to clean things up.)  Nathan's comment
about starting with code that was sorta-BSD-with-advertising alarmed me.

However, you can certainly set up a pgfoundry project with code of any
license you like.  That would be a good starting point anyway --- at
some point you'd have to convince people that there's enough demand
for the feature to justify putting it in core, and being able to point
to X number of downloads from pgfoundry would go a long way towards
making that case.
        regards, tom lane


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