Re: Re: New data type: uniqueidentifier

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
Cc: "Dmitry G. Mastrukov" <dmitry@taurussoft.org>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-07-03T15:33:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Alex Pilosov writes:

> Dmitry's stuff contains both datatype (uniqueidentifier), a function to
> generate a new object of that type (newid), and a set of functions to
> implement comparison operators for that type.
>
> I don't see anything wrong with that setup, but maybe I'm still missing
> something?

It would be much simpler if you stored the unique id in varchar or text.

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