> On May 25, 2017, at 2:48 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Mohamed Akram <mohd.akram@outlook.com> writes: >> That’s true, I guess it’s more of an enhancement but I couldn’t find an option for that in the bug form. However, even the sample C code in the RFC takes a void* argument for name. >> My use case is generating unique identifiers for images, similar to: >> select uuid_generate_v5(namespace, data); >> where data is a bytea column. > > A little experimentation suggests that we might be able to add a function > uuid_generate_v3(uuid, bytea) alongside the uuid_generate_v3(uuid, text) > one without creating serious problems --- in ambiguous situations, it > seems the text one would be preferred, so we'd not break existing queries. > > I have no interest in preparing such a patch myself, though. > > regards, tom lane
