Re: UUID v7

Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>

From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>

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Cc: "Andrey M. Borodin" <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Sergey Prokhorenko <sergeyprokhorenko@yahoo.com.au>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Przemysław Sztoch <przemyslaw@sztoch.pl>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Mat Arye <mat@timescaledb.com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>, Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov@gmail.com>, Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>

Date: 2024-03-15T09:47:42Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Hi,

> > So maybe we don't need the _extract_variant function?
>
> I think it's the best possible solution. The variant has no value besides detecting if a version can be extracted.

+1 to the idea. I doubt that anyone will miss it.

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

Commits

Fix timestamp overflow in UUIDv7 implementation.
- a5419bc72e22 18.0 landed
Add UUID version 7 generation function.
- 78c5e141e9c1 18.0 landed
Add some UUID support functions
- 794f10f6b920 17.0 landed