Re: guid/uuid datatype - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: guid/uuid datatype
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Msg-id 200701201407.22623.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: guid/uuid datatype  (Gevik Babakhani <pgdev@xs4all.nl>)
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Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> There could be many algorithms to generate a guid. I guess we will
> get into a big debate on that, which is not much useful i guess
> (seeing the posts last year).

There are a handful of standardized or established algorithms, so it
doesn't hurt to provide them all.  Compare pgcrypto -- certainly no one
needs all those encryption algorithms, but we offer them.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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