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From Thomas Hallgren
Subject Re: [GENERAL] UUID's as primary keys
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] UUID's as primary keys  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] UUID's as primary keys  (Jim Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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Greg Stark wrote:

> In answer to your question, though my opinion carries no special weight at
> all, I would suggest adding a bare bones 16-byte data type to core and a
> second binary-compatible data type based on it that parsed/output as uuids.
> The extended uuid libraries should only go in pgfoundry/contrib.
> 
I second that.

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren

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