Generating UUIDs With pgcrypto
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If you check out the docs for the , you'll come across the following message.
The OSSP UUID library... is not well maintained, and is becoming increasingly difficult to port to newer platforms.
A little bit later, it says:
If you only need randomly-generated (version 4) UUIDs, consider using the gen_random_uuid() function from the pgcrypto module instead.
So, if we are using the UUID data type and only need to generate random UUIDs, we can rely on the . It comes with the gen_random_uuid()
function which generates random v4 UUIDs.