Re:Avoid UUIDv4 Primary Keys
by mixmastamyk on Monday December 15, 2025 @01:45PM
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I didn’t mean that literally, but no longer editable. Was supposed to have “like” etc in there.
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But UUIDv7 doesn’t change that at all. It doesn’t matter what flavor of UUID you choose. The ID is always “like” an index to a block in that you traverse the tree to find the node. What UUIDv7 does is improve some performance characteristics when creating new entries and potentially for caching.