pgx_uuidv7

An extension for PostgreSQL that implements UUIDv7 with basic features.

Features

• Generate or Cast to UUIDv7
• Cast from UUIDv7 to timestamptz

Examples

Simple Generation

Generate for present time:

SELECT uuid_generate_v7_now();

Generate for specific time:

SELECT uuid_generate_v7('2012-03-04T05:06:07.123456789+00:00');

Cast to compare with timestamptz

Preparation:

CREATE TABLE foo (
  id uuid,
  data TEXT
);

CREATE TABLE bar (
  id uuid default uuid_generate_v7_now(),
  foo_id uuid
);

INSERT INTO foo
values (
  uuid_generate_v7('2012-03-04T05:06:07.123456789+00:00'),
  'a'
), (
  uuid_generate_v7('2001-12-03T04:05:06.123456789+00:00'),
  'b'
);

INSERT INTO bar (foo_id) SELECT id FROM foo;

Check equality:

SELECT data
FROM bar
JOIN foo ON bar.foo_id = foo.id
WHERE foo.id::timestamptz = '2012-03-04T05:06:07.123+00:00';

Narrow down by range:

SELECT data
FROM bar
JOIN foo ON bar.foo_id = foo.id
WHERE foo.id::timestamptz < '2012-03-04T05:06:07.123+00:00';

References

uses:

• pgrx v0.11.0(docs)
  • install this into your environment to develop this extension.
• uuid(docs)

lots of code is copied and modified from these following repositories:

• pg_uuidv7
• pgx_ulid

Thank you.

Memo

Build commands

PG_VERSION=16 # set postgresql major version
cargo pgrx package --no-default-features --features pg$PG_VERSION --pg-config $(ls ~/.pgrx/$PG_VERSION.*/pgrx-install/bin/pg_config 2>/dev/null | tail -n1)

OSSP UUID library is not well maintained.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/uuid-ossp.html#UUID-OSSP-BUILDING