| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: 9.4 Proposal: Initdb creates a single table |
| Date: | 2014-04-24 14:57:40 |
| Message-ID: | 30866.1398351460@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 24 April 2014 05:32, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
>> Since contrib/pgcrypto is a module that might well not be installed,
>> people can't just build software for PostgreSQL and have UUIDs
>> available, certainly not in the sense that, for example, BIGSERIAL is.
> +1 to include in core - strange to have a UUID datatype in core but no
> means to generate
The reason why there's no generation function in core is that there is no
standardized, guaranteed-to-produce-a-universally-unique-value generation
algorithm. That was the reason for not putting something in core when the
type was first created, and I do not see that the technology has advanced.
regards, tom lane
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