> On 18 Sep 2026, at 02:05, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> On the whole, seeing that installing pgcrypto into pg_catalog has
> not worked since v13 and there's been hardly any complaints about
> that, I'm not sure that we should risk breaking working setups to
> allow it.
I wouldn't be opposed to removing gen_random_uuid from pgcrypto, it's a hack
and documented as obsolete in all supported versions. Supporting installing
pgcrypto in pg_catalog would not be a motivator though, trimming unnecessary
code from pgcrypto is however appealing
--
Daniel Gustafsson
