From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: Gordon Hyatt <Gordon.Hyatt@joslin.harvard.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: UUID generation functions
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:18:27 -0700
Message-ID: <1212445107.12052.104.camel@jd-laptop> (raw)
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On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 18:11 -0400, John DeSoi wrote:
> 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> 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?
There has been excessive discussion on UUID generation. I would check
the archives. I know that one argument that I made is that pretty much
every language has some sort of UUID generation already, including those
we use for PL languages (excluding plpgsql).
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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