Add gen_random_uuid function

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

Commit: 5925e5549890416bcf588334d9d0bc99f8ad6c7f
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2019-07-14T12:30:27Z
Releases: 13.0
Add gen_random_uuid function

This adds a built-in function to generate UUIDs.

PostgreSQL hasn't had a built-in function to generate a UUID yet,
relying on external modules such as uuid-ossp and pgcrypto to provide
one.  Now that we have a strong random number generator built-in, we
can easily provide a version 4 (random) UUID generation function.

This patch takes the existing function gen_random_uuid() from pgcrypto
and makes it a built-in function.  The pgcrypto implementation now
internally redirects to the built-in one.

Reviewed-by: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/6a65610c-46fc-2323-6b78-e8086340a325@2ndquadrant.com

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