Re: Full GUID support

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 20:59, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> On 7/3/11 2:02 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah.  If there were One True Way to create a UUID, I would probably
>> agree that we should push that functionality into core.  But there are
>> a lot of ways (and the reason for that is that they all suck in one
>> fashion or another :-().  Between that and the lack of portability of
>> many of the better ways, this is something I'm happy to keep at arm's
>> length.
>
> Also, I think that UUIDs fall into the class of "datatypes used by less
> than 10% of users" which should always remain extensions.  I'd consider
> CITEXT for core before UUID.

UUID *is* in core. It's just the generation functions that aren't.

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