> > Well, I guess the question is: if we don't offer some builtin way to render > > non-standard formats built into company products, will those companies fix > > their format or just not use PostgreSQL? > > Well, there is an advantage that Postgres has that some others don't: you > can extend Postgres pretty easily. That suggests to me a reason to be > conservative in what we "build in". This is consistent with the principle, > "Be conservative in what you send, and liberal in what you accept."
Well, then the uuid input function should most likely disregard all -, and accept the 4x-, 8x- formats and the like on input. Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match