Re: Proposal for GUID datatype

On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 16:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Gevik Babakhani <pgdev@xs4all.nl> writes:
> > typreceive = not supported
> > typsend = not supported
> 
> Really?  Why not?

You are right, typreceive/typsend are also needed.
How would you advice to test this?

> I would suggest that the default output format just be 32 hex
> characters, since that would render the type useful for purposes
> other than one narrow definition of UUID.

Agreed.

> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
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