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From Benedict Holland
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No idea at all. We had the data for the insert and had to insert it again. It was extremely confusing but oh boy did it wreck our systems.

Thanks,
Ben

On Thu, Feb 2, 2023, 6:17 PM Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/2/23 17:11, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> On 2023-02-02 10:22:09 -0500, Benedict Holland wrote:
>> Well... until two processes generate an identical UUID. That happened to me
>> several times.
> How did that happen? Pure software implementation with non-random seed?
> Hardware with insufficient entropy source?

Poorly implemented algorithm?

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