# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-09-06 17:54:34 -0400:
> There's a fair amount of nearly
> unmaintained cruft in the core distro already (eg, the never-finished
> "line" datatype ... or the entire rtree index module ...) and a datatype
> that might be used by only a few people is a likely candidate to become
> an unmaintained backwater. And yet it's hard to get rid of stuff that's
> been there awhile. So one of the questions that's going to be asked is
> how useful/popular it's really going to be.
We'd have use for uuid in tables of N*10^6 rows (N<10 in most cases).
I'm far from claiming to be an experienced C programmer, but count
me in for whatever I'll be able to do.
I think that coming up with code that meets the general criteria for
inclusion in PostgreSQL first, before it's considered for inclusion,
is a reasonable thing to do.
> One thing that is raising my own level of concern quite a bit is the
> apparent portability issues.
That's understood.
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