Re: GUIDs

David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> writes:

> I can store them as a string in Perl, but the trick is getting the
> string representation in the first place. The library I was looking at
> using Data::UUID, offers binary and hex representations, as well as a
> 32 bit alphanumeric string and a Base64-encoded string, but not a
> numeric string, unfortunately.

I think if I were in your place, I'd store them as TEXT fields using
either the base64 or hex representation.

-Doug