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From: Aleksander Alekseev <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Borodin <[email protected]>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <[email protected]>
Cc: Sergey Prokhorenko <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Add uuid_to_base32hex() and base32hex_to_uuid() built-in functions
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:23:27 +0300
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Hi,

> > Or providing
> > 'uuid_encode(uuid, format text) -> text' and 'uuid_decode(text, format
> > text) -> uuid' might make sense too, but I'm not sure.
>
> I like the idea, so I drafted a prototype for discussion.
> Though I do not see what else methods should be provided along with added one...

I see no reason why we should forbid the use of base32 encoding with
bytea. Or have different functions for this e.g. uuid_encode() and
encode(). To me it looks like a poor API design.

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev





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