Re: [PATCH] Implement uuid_version()

On 2019-04-09 08:04, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2019-04-08 23:06, Andres Freund wrote:
>> The randomness based UUID generators don't really have dependencies, now
>> that we have a dependency on strong randomness. I kinda thing the
>> dependency argument actually works *against* uuid-ossp - precisely
>> because of its dependencies (which also vary by OS) it's not a proper
>> replacement for a type of facility a very sizable fraction of our users
>> need.
>
> Yeah, I think implementing a v4 generator in core would be trivial and
> address almost everyone's requirements.

Here is a proposed patch for this. I did a fair bit of looking around
in other systems for a naming pattern but didn't find anything
consistent. So I ended up just taking the function name and code from
pgcrypto.

As you can see, the code is trivial and has no external dependencies. I
think this would significantly upgrade the usability of the uuid type.

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