On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:27:21PM +0200, Gevik Babakhani wrote: > To my opinion only some of relational/compare operations like == and != > apply to such values. comparing guid >= guid or md5 < md5 is also > meaningless.
<snip> > 4. GUID type must have the ability to be indexed, grouped, ordered, > DISTINCT... but not MAX(), MIN() or SUM().... Err, for "ordered" you need to define <, >, >=, <=, which means you're going to get MAX, and MIN for free... > I also think we should have the GUID/UUID as a datatype and not just > functions handling hexstring. Sure, but that will be the I/O format, right? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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