Re: UUID v7

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 5:14 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> Perhaps we should name the function something like
> gen_time_ordered_random_uuid() instead?  That gives us a bit more flexibility
> about what uuid version we generate. And it might be easier for users, anyway.
I think users would be happy with any name.

> Still not sure what version we'd best use for now. Perhaps v8?
V8 is just a "custom data" format. Like "place whatever you want".
Though I agree that its sample implementation looks to be better.



On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 5:18 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> > Hm. It seems somewhat worrisome to claim something is a v7 UUID when it might
> > turn out to not be one.
>
> I think there is no need to rush this into v16.  Let's wait for the
> standardization process to play out.
>

Standardization per se does not bring value to users. However, I agree
that eager users can just have it today as an extension and be happy
with it [0].
Maybe it's fine to wait a year for others...


Best regards, Andrey Borodin.


[0] https://github.com/x4m/pg_uuid_next