Thom,
> The functions to produce UUIDs are in contrib, but the UUID data type
> itself is in core. You get the type uuid whether you install the
> contrib module or not.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-uuid.html
Oh!
I guess that shows you how much I use the type then.
Well, in that case, this whole discussion is moot unless someone is
offering to write us a UUID generator from scratch. Is someone doing so?
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