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Re:New UUID Formats – IETF Draft by koolba on Friday August 06, 2021 @06:10PM (#28093349)
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice they’re not.

Sortable unique IDs have many performance benefits in real world systems.

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Re:New UUID Formats – IETF Draft by lonjil on Friday August 13, 2021 @08:01AM (#28167863)
Just put an index on whatever nice sortable unique field you happen to have, then?
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