On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 at 12:53, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <[email protected]> wrote: > If it's just one new form, do we need a separate decode function? Could > we not just make uuid_in() accept both forms (they're easily > distinguishable by length), like bytea_in accepts both the old escape > format and the new hex format? > > And if the new format becomes the standard and want to change the > default output format, we would need a GUC like bytea_output anyway, to > let users control when to make the change.
Agreed to both of those. This seems too far out to spend much time discussing now.
