It would be a lot of work to support it as a new physical type (e.g. we would have to modify Avatica). Easier to support as a logical type, similar to what we did with Geometry. Its physical type would be, say, BINARY(16).
Julian > On Aug 23, 2018, at 5:56 PM, Shuyi Chen <suez1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Do we want to add support for UUID type in Calcite? Databases like vertica > <https://my.vertica.com/blog/whats-new-vertica-9-0-uuid-data-type/> and > postgre <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/datatype-uuid.html> are > already supporting UUID type? Thanks. > > Shuyi > > -- > "So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."
