On Saturday 31 March 2007 08:27, Paul McNett wrote:
> 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().
I'm using Postgres and the data type "serial" is built-in. It's fast and the
number is huge.
John Fabiani
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