Re: patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats

From: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Mark Mielke" <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>
Cc: "Pg Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: patch: Allow the UUID type to accept non-standard formats
Date: 2008-10-10 15:01:22
Message-ID: 603c8f070810100801t5f06fe9fuf22062d24e8388ee@mail.gmail.com
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> Anyways - I only somewhat disagree. I remember the original discussions, and
> I remember agreeing with the points to keep PostgreSQL UUID support thin and
> rigid. It's valuable for it to be built-in to the database. It's not
> necessarily valuable for PostgreSQL to support every UUID version or every
> format. Supporting additional formats is the direction of supporting every
> UUID format. Three months from now, somebody is going to propose allowing
> '-' or ':'. What should the answer be then?

Beats me. I didn't make the TODO list, I'm just coding to it.

...Robert

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