On Sep 6, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
I agree with Josh on the UUID type, it gets abused far too often and (IMHO) isn't widely enough used to belong in the core. Couldn't you just fix the problem in pguuid rather than write a whole new type? This sounds like a strawman argument. People abuse a lot of types to do a lot of things they shouldn't be doing, adding types to the core isn't really going to change that much one way or the other. If the documentation gives the user a good idea of when to use UUID and when not, I think it would be a good addition. Worst case, it could become part of contrib, so at least it ships with PostgreSQL with the same license. The GPL license of pguuid is a show-stopper for some (and seems like a silly choice for what it is and who it's for). -bob |
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