#### 2.3.13. PostgeSQL-specific UUID

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When using one of the PostgreSQL Dialects, this becomes the default UUID mapping

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Maps the UUID using PostgreSQL&#8217;s specific UUID data type.
The PostgreSQL JDBC driver chooses to map its UUID type to the `OTHER` code.
Note that this can cause difficulty as the driver chooses to map many different data types to `OTHER`.

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