Re: serial + db key, or guid? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mark Phillips
Subject Re: serial + db key, or guid?
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In response to Re: serial + db key, or guid?  (Adam Brusselback <adambrusselback@gmail.com>)
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Thanks to everyone who replied. All helpful. I learned and have new ideas to work with.

On Aug 11, 2020, at 10:42 AM, Adam Brusselback <adambrusselback@gmail.com> wrote:

I mentioned this in another email thread yesterday about a similar topic, but I'd highly suggest if you do go the UUID route, do not use the standard UUID generation functions, they all suck for database use (v1 also sucks).


I don't mind having a time component correlated with my UUID's because it's simply not a threat model that matters for my use case, so I use the time based variant. It helped me immensely with FPW and 
write amplification when I switched from V4 UUIDs. It is still not as fast as an int, but it is much much better than random UUIDs.

 

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