Re: GUIDs - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: GUIDs
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Msg-id 20031114050429.GA29956@wolff.to
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In response to GUIDs  (David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>)
Responses Re: GUIDs  (David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 19:57:33 -0500,
  David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I want to use GUIDs for object IDs in my application. This means that
> they would be used for primary keys in PostgreSQL, and there would of
> course be FKs pointing to them. A GUID is 128 bits, and can be in the
> following possible formats:

Couldn't you use numeric? That should be fairly portable.

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