struct ovsdb_datum datum;
char *key_string;
+ /* Special case for obtaining the UUID of a row. We can't just do this
+ * through parse_column_key_value() below since it returns a "struct
+ * ovsdb_idl_column" and the UUID column doesn't have one. */
+ if (!strcasecmp(ctx->argv[i], "_uuid")
+ || !strcasecmp(ctx->argv[i], "-uuid")) {
+ ds_put_format(out, UUID_FMT"\n", UUID_ARGS(&row->uuid));
+ continue;
+ }
+
die_if_error(parse_column_key_value(ctx->argv[i], table,
&column, &key_string, NULL));