Re: Feature request for postgresSQL

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tim Hawkins <tim(at)timhawkins(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Feature request for postgresSQL
Date: 2003-03-17 19:13:18
Message-ID: 3E761E4E.2000504@joeconway.com
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I am CC'ing the general list with this feature request.
>
> You could easily write a new data type like those in /contrib for this
> functionality. You are the first to ask for this feature.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Tim Hawkins wrote:
>>I'm not sure this the correct mechanism for requesting a feature.
>>
>>I would like to see the introduction of a GUID datatype which stores a
>>standard 16byte DCE UUID, plus a function for creating UUID's for
>>initialisation.

See:
http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/uniqueidentifier/projdisplay.php

HTH,

Joe

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