Understood, Thank you :) On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 21:23 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Gevik Babakhani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I was wondering if I should go ahead and add a macro datatype like the > > SERIAL, only this time for the uuid. > > This assumes a fact not in evidence, which is that we're going to accept > a uuid-generation function as part of core. AFAIK the only reasonably > non-contentious part of this proposal is the ability to *store* uuids. > Generating new ones introduces a host of portability and other issues. > > Considering the amount of pain involved in supporting SERIAL in the > parser, pg_dump, etc, I'd say that adding the above is a pretty certain > route to getting your patch rejected as too invasive. If, three or four > versions down the road, large numbers of people are using uuid with the > same generation function, *then* it might be time to think about > introducing a macro type. > > regards, tom lane >
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