P5
A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
Adding UUID as JDBC Type
JUSTIFICATION :
Some databases doesn't support binary types as keys (primary key, indexes, unique keys). Another databases doesn't support fixed length binary type (like PostgreSQL). They support only bytea type which is BLOB.
In the same time those database have UUID or similar data type (PostgreSQL offer UUID which is equivalent to java.util.UUID).
Most of the new applications prefer to use UUID (binary 16) as primary key instead to use int and long for their global unique identifiers.
It will be very useful of such type is supported in JDBC.
Adding UUID as JDBC Type
JUSTIFICATION :
Some databases doesn't support binary types as keys (primary key, indexes, unique keys). Another databases doesn't support fixed length binary type (like PostgreSQL). They support only bytea type which is BLOB.
In the same time those database have UUID or similar data type (PostgreSQL offer UUID which is equivalent to java.util.UUID).
Most of the new applications prefer to use UUID (binary 16) as primary key instead to use int and long for their global unique identifiers.
It will be very useful of such type is supported in JDBC.