Carl Karsten wrote:
> If it is an option, use client side GUIDs for your keys. life is so much
> better. the only regret I have is having to not care about people who have to
> use all the other kinds of keys. well, I care, but can't justify spending time
> on addressing the problem.
I agree wholeheartedly. Client-side UUID's are definitely the ticket,
although they do take more bits per field than ints. I'm particularly
wasteful as I don't bother compressing the 40-byte string returned from
dabo.lib.getRandomUUID().
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