Neil Tiffin wrote:
>
> I would just like to comment that for our project, GNU Enterprise, we
> use our own 128 bit object ID that is unique (UUID) for every row in
> all tables.
>
> It seems to me, without having looked into it, that having both a
> PostgreSQL UID and our own 128 bit objectid (UUID) is redundant and
> slows the whole process down. But we are storing object data in the
> database and require and absolutely unique objectid. We are planning
> for enterprise usage and expect to need 128 bits to uniquely define
> our objects.
Is it just an 128-bit int from a sequence or does it have some internal
structure ?
What kind of enterprise do you expect to have more than
18 446 744 073 709 551 615 of objects that can uniquely be identified
by 64 bits ?
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Hannu
