Re: TODO item: GUID

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: TODO item: GUID
Date: 2006-09-05 10:34:51
Message-ID: 20060905103451.GD14312@svana.org
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:29:40AM +0200, Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> I have two questions regarding the GUID todo item...
>
> 1. Do we want to have a new datatype for that or just a macro like the
> SERIAL type?

A new datatype. Just because someone has a guid column doesn't mean
they want it autogenerated. Provide a generation function (not
absolutly necessary) and you're done.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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