Re: patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats
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Msg-id 603c8f070810100801t5f06fe9fuf22062d24e8388ee@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats  (Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>)
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> Anyways - I only somewhat disagree. I remember the original discussions, and
> I remember agreeing with the points to keep PostgreSQL UUID support thin and
> rigid. It's valuable for it to be built-in to the database. It's not
> necessarily valuable for PostgreSQL to support every UUID version or every
> format. Supporting additional formats is the direction of supporting every
> UUID format. Three months from now, somebody is going to propose allowing
> '-' or ':'. What should the answer be then?

Beats me.  I didn't make the TODO list, I'm just coding to it.

...Robert


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