Re: UUID v7

On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 7:11 PM Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
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> > On 27 Nov 2024, at 04:11, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 1:55 PM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote:
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> >> On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 at 21:48, Sergey Prokhorenko
> >> <sergeyprokhorenko@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> >>> gen_uuidv7() is OK
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> >> I'd very much prefer to not have a gen_ or get_ prefix as argued before[1][2].
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> >> My vote is still for simply uuidv7() and uuidv4()
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> >>> uuid-ossp is outdated, slow and not supported by the author. UUIDv7 is the renaissance of UUIDs. So we should not
dependon legacy technology names 
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> >> agreed
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> > It seems that we agreed to use 'uuidv7' instead of 'uuid_v7()'. There
> > is discussion whether we should add 'gen_' or 'get_' but let's go back
> > to the previously-agreed function name 'uuidv7()' for now. We can
> > rename it later if we find a better name.
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> I think uuidv7() is kind of consensual.
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> > I've attached the new version patch that incorporated all comments and
> > renamed the functions. Also I avoided using 'if defined(__darwin__) ||
> > defined(_MSC_VER)' twice.
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> Good, I think now it's a bit easier to understand those 2 bits.
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Thanks.

I'm going to push the v39 patch (after self review again), barring any
objections and further comments.

Regards,

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