Tom Lane wrote:
> (I believe that 8.3 takes braces too ... but it's pickier about where
> it allows dashes.)
This is what the 8.3 comment says:
/*
* We allow UUIDs in three input formats: 8x-4x-4x-4x-12x,
* {8x-4x-4x-4x-12x}, and 32x, where "nx" means n hexadecimal digits
* (only the first fo
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 03:28:09PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
- David Kerr writes:
- > Tried w/o escaping:
- > insert into testuuid values ('{a0eebc99-9c0b4ef8-bb6d6bb9-bd380a11}');
- > ERROR: invalid input syntax for uuid:
"{a0eebc99-9c0b4ef8-bb6d6bb9-bd380a11}"
-
- Works for me:
-
- regression=#
David Kerr writes:
> Tried w/o escaping:
> insert into testuuid values ('{a0eebc99-9c0b4ef8-bb6d6bb9-bd380a11}');
> ERROR: invalid input syntax for uuid: "{a0eebc99-9c0b4ef8-bb6d6bb9-bd380a11}"
Works for me:
regression=# select '{a0eebc99-9c0b4ef8-bb6d6bb9-bd380a11}'::uuid;
uui
In the docs for the uuid datatype it states:
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/datatype-uuid.html)
PostgreSQL also accepts the following alternative forms for input: use of
upper-case digits, the standard format surrounded by braces, omitting some
or all hyphens, adding a hyphen after an
