On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 18:11 -0400, John DeSoi wrote: > On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > > > Any chance of going to 8.3? > > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/datatype-uuid.html > For reasons mentioned by the other poster, it would be helpful if > PostgreSQL could generate them. Is there really more than 2 or 3 > needed options where it would be huge code bloat to include sufficient > alternatives? There has been excessive discussion on UUID generation. I would check the archives. I know that one argument that I made is that pretty much every language has some sort of UUID generation already, including those we use for PL languages (excluding plpgsql). Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake
