From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: mark@mark.mielke.cc
Cc: nathan wagner <nw@hydaspes.if.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: uuid type for postgres
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:38:57 -0400
Message-ID: <18228.1126021137@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050906144930.GA27641@mark.mielke.cc>
References: <20050906135057.GA24136@granicus.if.org>
<20050906144930.GA27641@mark.mielke.cc>
mark@mark.mielke.cc writes:
> My personal preference is that the type be called 'uuid' and accepted
> into the core. Tom? Is their history on this issue?
> Should it remain an extension, or can be get it built-in?
There is pretty much zero chance of being accepted into contrib, much
less core, if the code isn't pure BSD license. (We used to be a bit
lax about that, but are trying to clean things up.) Nathan's comment
about starting with code that was sorta-BSD-with-advertising alarmed me.
However, you can certainly set up a pgfoundry project with code of any
license you like. That would be a good starting point anyway --- at
some point you'd have to convince people that there's enough demand
for the feature to justify putting it in core, and being able to point
to X number of downloads from pgfoundry would go a long way towards
making that case.
regards, tom lane
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