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You'll regret using natural keys (blog.ploeh.dk)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

random number as the key

UUID

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that is true. Not much at Google really bought into the UUID hype. At least not for internal interfaces. But really there is no difference between a UUID v4 and a large random number. UUID just specifies a standard formatting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Why reinvent the wheel