Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pKPWH-0002XD-Dq for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:03:49 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pKPWG-0004ZZ-9g for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:03:48 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pKPWG-0004ZQ-29 for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:03:48 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pKPW9-0002AA-8S for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:03:47 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 30OK3b4S2313458; Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:03:37 -0500 From: Tom Lane To: eike.send@gmail.com cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: gen_random_uuid is only available with pgcrypto enabled In-reply-to: <167456856827.2667301.17320033941826046414@wrigleys.postgresql.org> References: <167456856827.2667301.17320033941826046414@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Comments: In-reply-to PG Doc comments form message dated "Tue, 24 Jan 2023 13:56:08 +0000" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <2313456.1674590617.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:03:37 -0500 Message-ID: <2313457.1674590617@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk PG Doc comments form writes: > Regarding the documentation on this page: > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/functions-uuid.html > It think the documentation should state clearly, that postgres natively does > not have any UUID generation functions. That hasn't been true since we added gen_random_uuid() to the core code in v13. pgcrypto's version is now just a deprecated wrapper for that. regards, tom lane