Gevik Babakhani wrote: > There could be many algorithms to generate a guid. I guess we will > get into a big debate on that, which is not much useful i guess > (seeing the posts last year).
There are a handful of standardized or established algorithms, so it doesn't hurt to provide them all. Compare pgcrypto -- certainly no one needs all those encryption algorithms, but we offer them. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
