Re: UUID/GUID discussion leading to request for hexstring bytea?

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:12:54AM +0200, Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> > Magnitude comparison on the GUID as a whole makes no
> > sense to me.
> I agree. Any kind of comparison except equality has no meaning for the
> GUID. (And this is discussed before) I rather have the option to sort
> and group for the sake of consistency and compatibility.

Thomas: The ability to sort / comparison is required for use with
B-Tree index. I prefer a fast comparison over one with more meaning.
memcmp() is fine with me and it is how I implement it in my UUID
PostgreSQL library.

Gevik: Once you have your patch in a ready state, I'll compare it
against what I have and see if there is anything missing, or if I
did anything better. Possibly not, but it's worth the check.

Cheers,
mark

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