Re: BUG #14670: uuid_generate_v3 and uuid_generate_v5 do not support binary names

I’ve attached a patch for this.

Regards,
Mohamed

> On May 25, 2017, at 2:48 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Mohamed Akram <mohd(dot)akram(at)outlook(dot)com> writes:
>> That’s true, I guess it’s more of an enhancement but I couldn’t find an option for that in the bug form. However, even the sample C code in the RFC takes a void* argument for name.
>> My use case is generating unique identifiers for images, similar to:
>> select uuid_generate_v5(namespace, data);
>> where data is a bytea column.
>
> A little experimentation suggests that we might be able to add a function
> uuid_generate_v3(uuid, bytea) alongside the uuid_generate_v3(uuid, text)
> one without creating serious problems --- in ambiguous situations, it
> seems the text one would be preferred, so we'd not break existing queries.
>
> I have no interest in preparing such a patch myself, though.
>
> regards, tom lane