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Re:Random identifiers are poorly compressible by drran on Sunday September 12, 2021 @07:28AM (#28500204)
Assign pool of ID's to servers in blocks, e.g. 0..9999, 10000..19999. Then, when ID block is near to exhaustion, ask for new one.
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Re:Random identifiers are poorly compressible by derekperkins on Sunday September 12, 2021 @12:46PM (#28502696)
That's pretty close to how Vitess handles sequences (distributed auto-increment)
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