Re: [GENERAL] UUID's as primary keys

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Thomas Hallgren <thomas(at)tada(dot)se>, Psql_General <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] UUID's as primary keys
Date: 2006-06-29 16:12:53
Message-ID: 262.1151597573@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> In the current setup the only reason for Postgres to have this data type at
> all is purely for legacy compatibility.

Yes. So?

regards, tom lane

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