> On 18 Sep 2026, at 02:05, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > On the whole, seeing that installing pgcrypto into pg_catalog has > not worked since v13 and there's been hardly any complaints about > that, I'm not sure that we should risk breaking working setups to > allow it.
I wouldn't be opposed to removing gen_random_uuid from pgcrypto, it's a hack and documented as obsolete in all supported versions. Supporting installing pgcrypto in pg_catalog would not be a motivator though, trimming unnecessary code from pgcrypto is however appealing -- Daniel Gustafsson
