Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 24 April 2014 05:32, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: >> Since contrib/pgcrypto is a module that might well not be installed, >> people can't just build software for PostgreSQL and have UUIDs >> available, certainly not in the sense that, for example, BIGSERIAL is.
> +1 to include in core - strange to have a UUID datatype in core but no > means to generate The reason why there's no generation function in core is that there is no standardized, guaranteed-to-produce-a-universally-unique-value generation algorithm. That was the reason for not putting something in core when the type was first created, and I do not see that the technology has advanced. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers