> But if you are trying to store the output of gen_uuid() to a column that's not defined as character set octets then you have a little more work to do. ;-)

Well I'm storing this values in a varchar(38) column. I don't mind that they look "weird" in IBExpert grids, however, as this column is a primary key, these values will go into an index and they will be searched for.

Do you think this can be a problem? If not, I'll just let them be :)