GUID data type support

Started by Michal Hlavacabout 21 years ago3 messagesgeneral
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#1Michal Hlavac
hlavki@medium13.sk

does postgresql supports GUID data type???

I think, that it is slow to use GUID as varchar...

thanks, miso

#2Michael Fuhr
mike@fuhr.org
In reply to: Michal Hlavac (#1)
Re: GUID data type support

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 05:53:52PM +0100, Michal Hlavac wrote:

does postgresql supports GUID data type???

For the benefit of others, could you explain what this type is and
what you want to use it for? Are you referring to a "Globally
Unique Identifier"?

I think, that it is slow to use GUID as varchar...

What is "it" and why do you think that "it" is slow? What problem
are you trying to solve?

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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

#3John DeSoi
desoi@pgedit.com
In reply to: Michal Hlavac (#1)
Re: GUID data type support

On Mar 17, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Michal Hlavac wrote:

does postgresql supports GUID data type???

No, not in the core distribution.

There is a GPL project here to add this to PostgreSQL:

http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pguuid/projdisplay.php

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
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