> I thought the consensus was to provide the only atatype initially and > look into providing the generator functions later or via an external > project (pgfoundry or contrib/).
This was my understanding too... to include the uuid in the core and let the actual value be generated elsewhere...(client or separate project)... I do not think having a uuid datatype as contrib module separately will do us much good. All professional dbs support this as built in. So why shouldn't we... Regards, Gevik. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
