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From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: "Gordon Hyatt" <Gordon.Hyatt@joslin.harvard.edu>,
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Subject: Re: UUID generation functions
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>>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at  1:52 PM, in message
<85AC2B55AEF4CC41A2145B60C7F88074026535@JDCMAIL4.joslin.harvard.edu>,
"Hyatt,
Gordon" <Gordon.Hyatt@joslin.harvard.edu> wrote: 
> does anyone know if there are any internal
> UUID generation functions in pg?  I took a quick look at the 8.2
docs
> and didn't find anything related.
 
Any chance of going to 8.3?
 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/datatype-uuid.html
 
-Kevin