Re: UUID generation functions - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From John DeSoi
Subject Re: UUID generation functions
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Msg-id 9B722936-625A-4366-B119-6AA178372E48@pgedit.com
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In response to Re: UUID generation functions  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
Responses Re: UUID generation functions  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Re: UUID generation functions  ("Milen A. Radev" <milen@radev.net>)
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On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:

> Any chance of going to 8.3?
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/datatype-uuid.html

But 8.3 still does not generate UUIDs, only stores/compares them. From
the link above:

> PostgreSQL provides storage and comparison functions for UUIDs, but
> the core database does not include any function for generating
> UUIDs, because no single algorithm is well suited for every
> application.

For reasons mentioned by the other poster, it would be helpful if
PostgreSQL could generate them. Is there really more than 2 or 3
needed options where it would be huge code bloat to include sufficient
alternatives?

John DeSoi, Ph.D.





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