| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Gordon Hyatt <Gordon(dot)Hyatt(at)joslin(dot)harvard(dot)edu>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: UUID generation functions |
| Date: | 2008-06-02 22:18:27 |
| Message-ID: | 1212445107.12052.104.camel@jd-laptop |
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On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 18:11 -0400, John DeSoi wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>
> > Any chance of going to 8.3?
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/datatype-uuid.html
> For reasons mentioned by the other poster, it would be helpful if
> PostgreSQL could generate them. Is there really more than 2 or 3
> needed options where it would be huge code bloat to include sufficient
> alternatives?
There has been excessive discussion on UUID generation. I would check
the archives. I know that one argument that I made is that pretty much
every language has some sort of UUID generation already, including those
we use for PL languages (excluding plpgsql).
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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