Re: Full GUID support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Full GUID support
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Msg-id 4E1C732B.10101@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Full GUID support  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On 07/12/2011 12:03 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 07/03/2011 11:54 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On sön, 2011-07-03 at 13:42 -0500, Michael Gould wrote:
>>> I would like to request that full support for the UUID data type can 
>>> added.
>>> I think that even though there is a contrib module, since this is a 
>>> standard
>>> datatype that Postgres ought to be the one actually assigning the 
>>> value.
>>
>> What difference would that make?  In 9.1, you can easily load the
>> required extension, and there'd be no difference from a built-in
>> variant.
>>
>
> It is about usability folks.


What about extensions makes them less usable?

cheers

andrew


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