pg_uuidv7 1.4.1

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Create UUIDv7 values in Postgres
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pg_uuidv7 1.4.1
Create UUIDv7 values in Postgres

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pg_uuidv7: Use the new v7 UUIDs in Postgres

A tiny Postgres extension to create valid version 7 UUIDs in Postgres.

These are regular Postgres UUIDs, so they can be used as primary keys, converted to and from strings, included in indexes, etc:

```sql SELECT uuid_generate_v7();

uuid_generate_v7

018570bb-4a7d-7c7e-8df4-6d47afd8c8fc (1 row) ```

The timestamp component of these UUIDs can be extracted:

```sql SELECT uuid_v7_to_timestamptz('018570bb-4a7d-7c7e-8df4-6d47afd8c8fc');

uuid_v7_to_timestamptz

2023-01-02 04:26:40.637+00 (1 row) ```

Timestamps can be converted to v7 UUIDs:

```sql SELECT uuid_timestamptz_to_v7('2023-01-02 04:26:40.637+00');

uuid_timestamptz_to_v7

018570bb-4a7d-7630-a5c4-89b795024c5d (1 row)

-- for date range queries set the second argument to true to zero the random bits SELECT uuid_timestamptz_to_v7('2023-01-02 04:26:40.637+00', true);

uuid_timestamptz_to_v7

018570bb-4a7d-7000-8000-000000000000 (1 row) ```

uuid_generate_v7() is nearly as fast as the native gen_random_uuid() function. See the benchmarks for more details.

Background

Version 7 UUIDs have a few advantages. They include a 48-bit Unix timestamp with millisecond accuracy and will overflow far in the future (10899 AD). They also include 74 random bits which means billions can be created every second without collisions. Because of their structure they are globally sortable and can be created in parallel in a distributed system.

Quickstart

  1. Download the latest .tar.gz release and extract it to a temporary directory
  2. Copy pg_uuidv7.so for your Postgres version into the Postgres module directory
  3. Copy pg_uuidv7--1.4.sql and pg_uuidv7.control into the Postgres extension directory
  4. Enable the extension in the database using CREATE EXTENSION pg_uuidv7;

```sh

example shell script to install pg_uuidv7

cd "$(mktemp -d)" curl -LO "https://github.com/fboulnois/pg_uuidv7/releases/download/v1.4.1/{pg_uuidv7.tar.gz,SHA256SUMS}" tar xf pg_uuidv7.tar.gz sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS PG_MAJOR=$(pg_config --version | sed 's/^.* ([0-9]{1,}).*$/\1/') cp "$PG_MAJOR/pg_uuidv7.so" "$(pg_config --pkglibdir)" cp pg_uuidv7--1.4.sql pg_uuidv7.control "$(pg_config --sharedir)/extension" psql -c "CREATE EXTENSION pg_uuidv7;" ```

Build

Build locally

pg_uuidv7 only requires the libpq headers and Postgres extension tools to build the code. On Debian, these headers are included in the libpq-dev and postgresql-server-dev-all packages.

To build the code run make.

Build using Docker

A Dockerfile is available to build the code using the official Postgres Docker image:

sh docker build . --tag pg_uuidv7