Google for 'postgresql uuid' will reveal some options.
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:03:17AM +0100, Paul Newman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are using GUIDS as primary keys. At the moment we're using a varchar
> 32. We'd like to use varchar 16 but had some problems with the generated
> chars; we were using UNICODE locale (we're now using WIN1251). Should we
> use bytea, retry varchar 16 (with the new local), or some other column
> type ?? What is going to give us the best performance (with 8.1) ?
>
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> Thank You
>
>
>
> Paul Newman
>
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