| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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| To: | Paul Newman <pnewman(at)tripoint(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: What to use for GUIDS ? |
| Date: | 2005-10-17 18:10:50 |
| Message-ID: | 20051017181049.GC86144@pervasive.com |
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Google for 'postgresql uuid' will reveal some options.
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:03:17AM +0100, Paul Newman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are using GUIDS as primary keys. At the moment we're using a varchar
> 32. We'd like to use varchar 16 but had some problems with the generated
> chars; we were using UNICODE locale (we're now using WIN1251). Should we
> use bytea, retry varchar 16 (with the new local), or some other column
> type ?? What is going to give us the best performance (with 8.1) ?
>
>
>
> Thank You
>
>
>
> Paul Newman
>
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