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From Martijn van Oosterhout
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In response to TODO item: GUID  (Gevik Babakhani <pgdev@xs4all.nl>)
Responses Re: TODO item: GUID  (Gevik Babakhani <pgdev@xs4all.nl>)
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:29:40AM +0200, Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> I have two questions regarding the GUID todo item...
>
> 1. Do we want to have a new datatype for that or just a macro like the
> SERIAL type?

A new datatype. Just because someone has a guid column doesn't mean
they want it autogenerated. Provide a generation function (not
absolutly necessary) and you're done.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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