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Re:Moving Away from UUIDs by throwawaymaths on Monday November 21, 2022 @10:52PM (#33701604)
I feel like it did strings in postgres too, not too long ago and I had a <brain explode> moment when I worked on a codebase and had to figure out why queries were terrible
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Re:Moving Away from UUIDs by lolinder on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:03PM (#33701706)
Supposedly the behavior hasn't changed since at least version 1.8:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/models/fields/#uui...

It may not have worked correctly on your project for some reason?

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Re:Moving Away from UUIDs by throwawaymaths on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:20AM (#33702301)
Actually now that I remember we were using MySQL and I was pushing for migrating to postgres partially for this reason, sorry it was a long time ago in startup time
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