Re: Full GUID support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Full GUID support
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Msg-id 4E19F679.4000203@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Full GUID support  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Re: Full GUID support
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On 7/3/11 2:02 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah.  If there were One True Way to create a UUID, I would probably
> agree that we should push that functionality into core.  But there are
> a lot of ways (and the reason for that is that they all suck in one
> fashion or another :-().  Between that and the lack of portability of
> many of the better ways, this is something I'm happy to keep at arm's
> length.

Also, I think that UUIDs fall into the class of "datatypes used by less
than 10% of users" which should always remain extensions.  I'd consider
CITEXT for core before UUID.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com


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