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Re:How long do GUIDs really need to be? by jacques_chester on Friday October 31, 2014 @04:13PM (#8540873)
No, but I think most people overoptimise on the shiny stuff ("oooooh, I saved some bits!") over the important stuff (nasty surprises, several years from now).
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Re:How long do GUIDs really need to be? by ed0 on Friday October 31, 2014 @05:10PM (#8541153)
Yeah, but sometimes "saving some bits" is really important. It's also really inconvenient to work with UUIDS, like in writing SQL queries etc. The solution these guys came up with obviously works for them.
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Re:How long do GUIDs really need to be? by wtbob on Saturday November 01, 2014 @09:10AM (#8542910)
> It's also really inconvenient to work with UUIDS, like in writing SQL queries etc.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/datatype-uuid.html makes it look pretty easy…

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Re:How long do GUIDs really need to be? by scardine on Friday October 31, 2014 @06:03PM (#8541317)
Precisely the argument from Dilbert's Y2K episode: http://www.tv.com/shows/dilbert/y2k-12015/
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Re:How long do GUIDs really need to be? by lmm on Saturday November 01, 2014 @05:57AM (#8542620)
How are these eager.io IDs any easier to work with in SQL queries etc.?
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