MySQL Bugs: #1061: Uniqueidenfier datatype

Bug #1061	Uniqueidenfier datatype
Submitted:	15 Aug 2003 22:49	Modified:	21 Aug 2003 4:34
Reporter:	Grigore Dolghin	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
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Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

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Description:
Is there possible to implement in MySQL a new datatype like the MSSQL Server's UNIQUEIDENTIFIER? It's very handy when one needs to synchronize different databases, but not entirely.

Thank you.

How to repeat:
It's a feature request.

Thank you for you Feedback,

We have this feature in plans, and actually you can even already find in the Internet UDF for UUID() function:
http://software.tangent.org/articles/02/10/21/1915224.shtml?tid=32

We also plan to add support for shorter version of unique identifier, which would be just 64bit lengths, to be used in smaller systems.