Re: [GENERAL] uuid, COMB uuid, distributed farms

2011-01-02 Thread Dennis Gearon
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Re: [GENERAL] uuid, COMB uuid, distributed farms

2011-01-02 Thread Dennis Gearon
One of the issues with using UUIDs for primary keys, or even in a secondary key using a unique index,would be paging of the index because of the randomness of the values. This is what I have read, is that true for Posgres? On the tests in this article, doing large amounts of consecutive inserts,