Re: [PATCH] Implement uuid_version()

Hi,

On 2019-04-08 11:06:57 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> That's not really a compelling reason, though, because anybody who
> needs UUIDs can always install the extension.  And on the other hand,
> if we moved UUID support into core, then we'd be adding a hard compile
> dependency on one of the UUID facilities, which might annoy some
> developers.  We could possibly work around that by implementing our
> own UUID facilities in core, but I'm not volunteering to do the work,
> and I'm not sure that the work has enough benefit to justify the
> labor.

The randomness based UUID generators don't really have dependencies, now
that we have a dependency on strong randomness.  I kinda thing the
dependency argument actually works *against* uuid-ossp - precisely
because of its dependencies (which also vary by OS) it's not a proper
replacement for a type of facility a very sizable fraction of our users
need.

Greetings,

Andres Freund