Re: UUID v7

From: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
To: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Sergey Prokhorenko <sergeyprokhorenko(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au>, Przemysław Sztoch <przemyslaw(at)sztoch(dot)pl>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers mailing list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Mat Arye <mat(at)timescaledb(dot)com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stepan Neretin <sncfmgg(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: UUID v7
Date: 2024-11-27 03:11:11
Message-ID: CAC4A2C8-C115-4EE0-8405-59BEB36418C6@yandex-team.ru
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> On 27 Nov 2024, at 04:11, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 1:55 PM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 at 21:48, Sergey Prokhorenko
>> <sergeyprokhorenko(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
>>> gen_uuidv7() is OK
>>
>> I'd very much prefer to not have a gen_ or get_ prefix as argued before[1][2].
>>
>> My vote is still for simply uuidv7() and uuidv4()
>>
>>> uuid-ossp is outdated, slow and not supported by the author. UUIDv7 is the renaissance of UUIDs. So we should not depend on legacy technology names
>>
>> agreed
>>
>
> It seems that we agreed to use 'uuidv7' instead of 'uuid_v7()'. There
> is discussion whether we should add 'gen_' or 'get_' but let's go back
> to the previously-agreed function name 'uuidv7()' for now. We can
> rename it later if we find a better name.

I think uuidv7() is kind of consensual.

> I've attached the new version patch that incorporated all comments and
> renamed the functions. Also I avoided using 'if defined(__darwin__) ||
> defined(_MSC_VER)' twice.

Good, I think now it's a bit easier to understand those 2 bits.

Thanks!

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

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