>> But 8.3 still does not generate UUIDs, only stores/compares themThis is true, however, only last week I completed a successful pg 8.3 install and during the installation I was able to include UUID generation functions as an option. I now have 10 functions called uuid_something. The ones I use most begin with "uuid_generate". I can call these functions from within my own stored procs.
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