Howdy all,

I am in need of a UUID type in PostgreSQL, so I was very glad to find
the implementation 'polarrose-postgresql-uuid' at Google Code
<URL:http://code.google.com/p/polarrose-postgresql-uuid/>, written by
Stefan Arentz for "Polar Rose".

Though it's possible to make use of this as a manually-maintained
extension to a local PostgreSQL database, it seems to me that a native
UUID type would be suitable for inclusion in PostgreSQL.

What plans are currently underway for a native UUID type in
PostgreSQL? If I understand correctly, the procedure is to distribute
such things in "contrib", then later in the core.

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Ben Finney

Ben Finney wrote:


http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/s...type-uuid.html

do iso-uuid not need a registered prefix?

John Koller <johnckoller (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> writes:

Thank you. Is this the same code as written by Stefan Arentz, or does
it exist elsewhere?

How feasible is it to get this working on a PostgreSQL 8.2 server, as
an interim measure until we can upgrade to 8.3?

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Ben Finney

Ben Finney wrote:

According to the release notes it was done by Gevik Babakhani.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/s...lease-8-3.html