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From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:24:49 +0100
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Subject: Re: Add uuid_to_base32hex() and base32hex_to_uuid() built-in
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To: =?UTF-8?Q?Dagfinn_Ilmari_Manns=C3=A5ker?= <ilmari@ilmari.org>
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 at 12:53, Dagfinn Ilmari Manns=C3=A5ker
<ilmari@ilmari.org> wrote:
> If it's just one new form, do we need a separate decode function?  Could
> we not just make uuid_in() accept both forms (they're easily
> distinguishable by length), like bytea_in accepts both the old escape
> format and the new hex format?
>
> And if the new format becomes the standard and want to change the
> default output format, we would need a GUC like bytea_output anyway, to
> let users control when to make the change.

Agreed to both of those. This seems too far out to spend much time
discussing now.