Hi, On 2019-04-08 11:06:57 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > That's not really a compelling reason, though, because anybody who > needs UUIDs can always install the extension. And on the other hand, > if we moved UUID support into core, then we'd be adding a hard compile > dependency on one of the UUID facilities, which might annoy some > developers. We could possibly work around that by implementing our > own UUID facilities in core, but I'm not volunteering to do the work, > and I'm not sure that the work has enough benefit to justify the > labor.
The randomness based UUID generators don't really have dependencies, now that we have a dependency on strong randomness. I kinda thing the dependency argument actually works *against* uuid-ossp - precisely because of its dependencies (which also vary by OS) it's not a proper replacement for a type of facility a very sizable fraction of our users need. Greetings, Andres Freund
