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Re:PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key by wibblewobble125 on Saturday July 06, 2024 @10:09AM (#40890579)
Sometimes distribution is not for performance but tenant isolation for regulatory or general isolation purposes. I work in such an industry.
Re:PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key by sgarland on Saturday July 06, 2024 @10:21AM (#40890629)
Fair point. You can still use monotonic IDs with these, via either interleaving chunks to each DB, or with a central server that allocates them – the latter approach is how Slack handles it, for example.