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Re:UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019) by isoprophlex on Saturday January 08, 2022 @10:35AM (#29852596)
The point is, a uuid contains 128 bits of data, so a varchar(32) is still somewhat excessive
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Re:UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019) by Too on Saturday January 08, 2022 @10:53AM (#29852788)
Why varchar over char? The length is always the same.
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Re:UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019) by isoprophlex on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:05AM (#29852913)
Yeah, true. My bad. I'm used to calling everything TEXT.
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