On 7/3/11 2:02 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah. If there were One True Way to create a UUID, I would probably
> agree that we should push that functionality into core. But there are
> a lot of ways (and the reason for that is that they all suck in one
> fashion or another :-(). Between that and the lack of portability of
> many of the better ways, this is something I'm happy to keep at arm's
> length.
Also, I think that UUIDs fall into the class of "datatypes used by less
than 10% of users" which should always remain extensions. I'd consider
CITEXT for core before UUID.
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