Re: Proposal for GUID datatype - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Proposal for GUID datatype
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Msg-id 20060908200119.GN5479@svana.org
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In response to Proposal for GUID datatype  (Gevik Babakhani <pgdev@xs4all.nl>)
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Just a few comments,

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 09:18:20PM +0200, Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> 5) support functions:
> because uuid could also be used as PK or unique values, additional
> function(s) will be available to produce a uuid value to be used in
> a field's default value like sequences or PL/pgSQL etc.. etc...
>
> example;
>
> create table tbl(
>     ID uuid default ('new_uuid()'),
>     ....
> );

That would be: ID uuid default new_uuid();

> typstorage = m // stored compressed inline

Compression is not going to work on such short values, the header will
almost longer, just use 'p' like every other fixed length type.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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