Re: Full GUID support

On 07/12/2011 09:15 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 07/12/2011 12:03 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> On 07/03/2011 11:54 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> On sön, 2011-07-03 at 13:42 -0500, Michael Gould wrote:
>>>> I would like to request that full support for the UUID data type can
>>>> added.
>>>> I think that even though there is a contrib module, since this is a
>>>> standard
>>>> datatype that Postgres ought to be the one actually assigning the
>>>> value.
>>>
>>> What difference would that make? In 9.1, you can easily load the
>>> required extension, and there'd be no difference from a built-in
>>> variant.
>>>
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>> It is about usability folks.
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> What about extensions makes them less usable?

It is an extra step, that is less usable. Does it matter? Shrug, I know
I hate having to type apt-get just to use xyz, does it mean it is a big
deal? Probably not.

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