Paul Newman wrote:
> We are currently using a 32byte varchar for our primary keys. We tried
> to reduce this down to 16 bytes but varchar didn't seem to store this
> correctly.
In what way was it not stored "correctly"? The size limit should not
significantly affect varchar behavior, other than bounding its maximum
size of course.
> I'd like to use bytea instead so we could use 16bytes, but are
> indexes used properly ?
Sure.
> Does anyone have any other suggestions on how to store guids ?
http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pguuid/projdisplay.php
is out there; I haven't used it personally, though.
Is there a reason you can't use an int8?
-Neil
