Better trace_id and span_id API

[Yamakaky]

Currently the trace_id and span_id fields for span are a bit awkward to use. I frequently uses Grafana data links to Jaeger, which means I have to use replace(trace_id::text, '-', '') and to_hex(span_id) a lot. I guess a way around this would be to expose these fields as custom types that apply this conversion when converting from/to text.

[ramonguiu]

Thanks for the feedback @Yamakaky . This is something we had identified as a future improvement.

By the way, I would love to understand more about your use case and how we could make our product better. If you're open to discuss drop me an email at ramon at timescale.com

[Yamakaky]

Sure