Re: UUID/GUID discussion leading to request for hexstring bytea? (was: Re: [HACKERS] TODO: GUID datatype)

2006-09-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 05:05:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2) Create semi-generic types with common bitlengths. Associated >functions work on these semi-generic types. No overhead. >- hexstring128, hexstring160, ... > > 3) Create a new bytea type that has asci

UUID/GUID discussion leading to request for hexstring bytea? (was: Re: [HACKERS] TODO: GUID datatype)

2006-09-06 Thread mark
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:49:09PM +0200, Gevik Babakhani wrote: > I would like to know if anyone is working on the GUID datatype. > If not, I am going to work on it. Please let me know. Assuming you mean GUID in the same sense as UUID, there are many non-core developers who would like to see it,