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From: Milen A. Radev <milen@radev.net>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: UUID generation functions
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:15:14 +0300
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John DeSoi написа:
> 
> 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
> 
> But 8.3 still does not generate UUIDs, only stores/compares them. From 
> the link above:
> 
>> PostgreSQL provides storage and comparison functions for UUIDs, but 
>> the core database does not include any function for generating UUIDs, 
>> because no single algorithm is well suited for every application.
> 
> 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?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/uuid-ossp.html


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Milen A. Radev

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