From: Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu>
To: Trinath Somanchi <trinath.somanchi@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: UUID for Postgresql 8.4
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:38:08 -0500
Message-ID: <20100721123808.GH27203@aart.is.rice.edu> (raw)
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 05:49:53PM +0530, Trinath Somanchi wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a column in my Postgresql database tables which need UUID.
>
> Is there any function in Pgsql for UUID generation. Please help me in this
> regard.
>
> --
> Regards,
> ----------------------------------------------
> Trinath Somanchi,
Check the page about the UUID type in the manual:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/datatype-uuid.html
It contains some suggestions for generating them, including the
contrib/uuid-ossp module:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/uuid-ossp.html
Cheers,
Ken
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