Re: GUIDs

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: David Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: GUIDs
Date: 2003-11-14 05:04:29
Message-ID: 20031114050429.GA29956@wolff.to
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 19:57:33 -0500,
David Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I want to use GUIDs for object IDs in my application. This means that
> they would be used for primary keys in PostgreSQL, and there would of
> course be FKs pointing to them. A GUID is 128 bits, and can be in the
> following possible formats:

Couldn't you use numeric? That should be fairly portable.

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