Re: UUID generation functions

John DeSoi написа:
>
> On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>
>> Any chance of going to 8.3?
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/datatype-uuid.html
>
> But 8.3 still does not generate UUIDs, only stores/compares them. From
> the link above:
>
>> PostgreSQL provides storage and comparison functions for UUIDs, but
>> the core database does not include any function for generating UUIDs,
>> because no single algorithm is well suited for every application.
>
> For reasons mentioned by the other poster, it would be helpful if
> PostgreSQL could generate them. Is there really more than 2 or 3 needed
> options where it would be huge code bloat to include sufficient
> alternatives?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/uuid-ossp.html


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