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Re:UUIDv7 is coming in PostgreSQL 17 by BillinghamJ on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:02PM (#39264352)
I'm not sure why that'd inherently be a problem? Knowledge that some record exists about a medical event at a particular time is not too problematic, compared to _who_ it happened to
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Re:UUIDv7 is coming in PostgreSQL 17 by joshgel on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:25PM (#39264732)
very rare diseases may be an exception, especially in known geographic locations. that can become identifiable (and is governed by HIPAA in the US)
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