Subject: uniqueidentifier datatype for 7.3.X
From: "Dmitry G. Mastrukov" =?koi8-r?Q?=E4=CD=C9=D4=D2=C9=CA_?=
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Date: 03 Nov 2002 12:53:54 +0300
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Hi All!

I've ported uniqueidentifier datatype to upcoming PostgreSQL 7.3. It's
available at
http://www.taurussoft.org/files/uniqueidentifier-0.1.9.3.tar.gz
In this release there is additional function uniqueidentifier_text()
which converts uniqueidentifier to text datatype. Thanks to Hussein
Patni!
 
Version for 7.2.X is available at
http://www.taurussoft.org/files/uniqueidentifier-0.1.9.2.tar.gz
Version for 7.1.X is available at
http://www.taurussoft.org/files/uniqueidentifier-0.1.9.1.tar.gz
The only difference between two releases is adoptation to 7.2.X system
catalog. No new functions/bugfixes.

Uniqueidentifier datatype is 128-bit (16 byte) wide datatype claims to
be unique across Universe. It's a good choice for primary indexes and
making relations between tables.
This inplementation depends on libuuid library from e2fsprogs package by
Theodore Ts'o.
Licence is LGPL.

Regards,
Dmitry