On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 at 12:53, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
<ilmari@ilmari.org> wrote:
> If it's just one new form, do we need a separate decode function? Could
> we not just make uuid_in() accept both forms (they're easily
> distinguishable by length), like bytea_in accepts both the old escape
> format and the new hex format?
>
> And if the new format becomes the standard and want to change the
> default output format, we would need a GUC like bytea_output anyway, to
> let users control when to make the change.
Agreed to both of those. This seems too far out to spend much time
discussing now.
