Postgres Pro
Downloads
Home   >   mailing lists

Re: UUID column as pimrary key? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jasen Betts
Subject Re: UUID column as pimrary key?
Date
Msg-id ig9fdo$8v3$2@reversiblemaps.ath.cx
Whole thread Raw
In response to UUID column as pimrary key?  (Dennis Gearon <gearond@sbcglobal.net>)
List pgsql-general
Tree view 
On 2011-01-06, Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:

> (Sequence + Host Data), and I'd expect there to
> be a considerable risk of Dumb Techs making mistakes there.  It wouldn't
> be difficult for such a scenario to induce systematic key collisions.

I've seen that happen. cleanup of the effected records was tricky,
a few customers were inconvenienced

--
⚂⚃ 100% natural

pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Maciej Sakrejda
Date:
Subject: cast question: max double precision > text > double precision fails with out or range error
Next
From: "Cassius V. de Magalhaes"
Date:
Subject: subscribe