On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:18:39PM -0400, A.M. wrote: > On Wed, June 28, 2006 1:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 06:39:16PM +0200, Thomas Hallgren wrote: > > > >> Instead, I would like to humbly request the inclusion of a UUID > >> datatype (or an opaque 128 bit datatype) in the core package. It's > >> increasingly common and some databases (MS SQLServer) already have built > >> in support for it. > > > > We have it. We're just not putting in the effort required to have it > > included in core, as it's too much effort to convince people that the type > > has value, that is is generic, and would be widely used without being > > abused. All the geometric types that I'll never use in core, with few or > > no uses, including functions to operate on these types, and no UUID > > type... Hehe... To me, that's irony... :-) > > Is it on pgfoundry? From past discussions, the new criteria for getting > something into core is to first determine if it is successful on > pgfoundry.
If http://lnk.nu/pgfoundry.org/a86.php is accurate, then no one has ever downloaded it. But I find that exceptionally hard to believe... Looking back through the list archives I think you'd find this comes up at least every few months. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
