On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 08:12:54AM +0300, Dmitry G. Mastrukov wrote:
> I'm preparing new release of uniqueidentifier datatype. In new relaease
> in addition to existing btree operator class I've implemented hash
> operator class. But what class should be default for this datatype?
> Uniqueidentifier is used for identification, so main operation with it
> is '=', on machines with /dev/urandom '<','>' operations have no meaning
> (parts for date and time are randomized). May be hash operator class
> should be default for uniqueidentifier?
btree is a better choice anyway because it allows for more concurrent
operation and it's far more tested.
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