Thanks for interesting ideas, Mat! > On 31 Aug 2023, at 20:32, Mat Arye <m...@timescaledb.com> wrote: > > From a user perspective, it would be great to add 2 things: > - A function to extract the timestamp from a V7 UUID (very useful for > defining constraints if partitioning by the uuid-embedded timestamps, for > instance).
Well, as far as I know, RFC discourages extracting timestamps from UUIDs. But we still can have such functions...maybe as an extension? > - Can we add an optional timestamptz argument to gen_uuid_v7 so that you can > explicitly specify a time instead of always generating for the current time? > If the argument is NULL, then use current time. This could be useful for > backfilling and other applications. I think this makes sense. We could also have a counter as an argument. I'll try to implement that. However, so far I haven't figured out how to implement optional arguments for catalog functions. I'd appreciate any pointers here. Best regards, Andrey Borodin.
