Re: Add uuid_to_base32hex() and base32hex_to_uuid() built-in functions

Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@tigerdata.com>

From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@tigerdata.com>

To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Cc: Sergey Prokhorenko <sergeyprokhorenko@yahoo.com.au>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>

Date: 2025-10-27T14:37:37Z

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Add base32hex support to encode() and decode() functions.
- 497c1170cb10 19 (unreleased) landed
Allow explicit casting between bytea and uuid.
- ba21f5bf8aff 19 (unreleased) landed
Add support for base64url encoding and decoding
- e1d917182c19 19 (unreleased) cited

Hi Sergey,

> It seems that bytea is your personal interest, since you continue to impose your bytea when a better solution has already been found with uuid_encode() and uuid_decode().

In the previous messages Masahiko Sawada wrote:

> Or providing
> 'uuid_encode(uuid, format text) -> text' and 'uuid_decode(text, format
> text) -> uuid' might make sense too, but I'm not sure. I'd like to
> hear opinions from other hackers too.

I merely shared my personal opinion on why I think this is a bad idea.
Let's see what other people think.

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev