Functions for generating UUIDv6 and UUIDv7 on PostgreSQL

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/**

*/ create or replace function uuidv6(p_timestamp timestamp with time zone default clock_timestamp()) returns uuid as $$ declare

v_time double precision := null;

v_gregorian_t bigint := null;
v_clock_sequence_and_node bigint := null;

v_gregorian_t_hex_a varchar := null;
v_gregorian_t_hex_b varchar := null;
v_clock_sequence_and_node_hex varchar := null;

c_epoch double precision := 12219292800; -- RFC-9562 epoch: 1582-10-15
c_100ns_factor double precision := $10^{7}$; -- RFC-9562 precision: 100 ns

c_version bigint := x'0000000000006000'::bigint; -- RFC-9562 version: b'0110...'
c_variant bigint := x'8000000000000000'::bigint; -- RFC-9562 variant: b'10xx...'

begin

v_time := extract(epoch from p_timestamp);

v_gregorian_t := trunc((v_time + c_epoch) * c_100ns_factor);
-- v_clock_sequence_and_node := secure_random_bigint(); -- use when pgcrypto extension is installed
v_clock_sequence_and_node := trunc(random() * $2^{30}$)::bigint << 32 | trunc(random() * $2^{32}$)::bigint;

v_gregorian_t_hex_a := lpad(to_hex((v_gregorian_t >> 12)), 12, '0');
v_gregorian_t_hex_b := lpad(to_hex((v_gregorian_t & 4095) | c_version), 4, '0');
v_clock_sequence_and_node_hex := lpad(to_hex(v_clock_sequence_and_node | c_variant), 16, '0');

return (v_gregorian_t_hex_a || v_gregorian_t_hex_b  || v_clock_sequence_and_node_hex)::uuid;

end $$ language plpgsql;


-- EXAMPLE:

-- -- select uuid6() uuid, clock_timestamp()-statement_timestamp() time_taken;

--uuidtime_taken
--1eeca632-cf2a-65e0-85f3-151064c2409d00:00:00.000108
--

-- EXAMPLE: generate a list

-- -- with x as (select clock_timestamp() as t from generate_series(1, 1000)) -- select uuid6(x.t) uuid, x.t::text ts from x;

--uuidts
--1eeca634-f783-63f0-9988-48906d79f7822024-02-13 08:30:37.891480-03
--1eeca634-f783-6c24-97af-605238f4c3d02024-02-13 08:30:37.891691-03
--1eeca634-f783-6e7c-9c2e-624f24b877382024-02-13 08:30:37.891754-03
--1eeca634-f784-6070-a67b-4fc6659143e72024-02-13 08:30:37.891800-03
--1eeca634-f784-6200-befd-0e20be5b00872024-02-13 08:30:37.891842-03
--1eeca634-f784-6390-8f79-d4dacec1c3e02024-02-13 08:30:37.891881-03
--1eeca634-f784-6520-8ee7-96091b017d4c2024-02-13 08:30:37.891920-03
--1eeca634-f784-66b0-a63e-c285d8a63e212024-02-13 08:30:37.891958-03
--1eeca634-f784-6840-8c00-38659c4bf8072024-02-13 08:30:37.891997-03
--1eeca634-f784-69d0-b775-4bbfd45eb99e2024-02-13 08:30:37.892036-03
--

-- FOR TEST: the expected result is an empty result set

-- -- with t as (select uuid6() as id from generate_series(1, 1000)) -- select * from t where (id is null or id::text !~ '^[a-f0-9]{8}-[a-f0-9]{4}-6[a-f0-9]{3}-[89ab][a-f0-9]{3}-[a-f0-9]{12}$');