Thread: 8.12. UUID Type

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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/datatype-uuid.html
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Is this the right sentence? "use of upper-case digits"
>>PostgreSQL also accepts the following alternative forms for input: use of
upper-case digits

On Thu, 2024-06-13 at 08:59 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/datatype-uuid.html
> Description:
>
> Is this the right sentence? "use of upper-case digits"
> > > PostgreSQL also accepts the following alternative forms for input: use of upper-case digits

Hexadecimal digits, also known as letters.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 08:59:18AM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/datatype-uuid.html
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> Is this the right sentence? "use of upper-case digits"
> >>PostgreSQL also accepts the following alternative forms for input: use of
> upper-case digits


I'd say so. Previous paragraph says:

"…sequence of lower-case hexadecimal digits…"

So digits are not only 0-9, but also a-f. And this can be upper or lower
case.

Best regards,

depesz

On 2024-Jun-13, Laurenz Albe wrote:

> On Thu, 2024-06-13 at 08:59 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/datatype-uuid.html
> > Description:
> > 
> > Is this the right sentence? "use of upper-case digits"
> > > > PostgreSQL also accepts the following alternative forms for input: use of upper-case digits
> 
> Hexadecimal digits, also known as letters.

Everybody knows that ! is an uppercase 1, right?
/s

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