I can see how this makes sense for future compatibility with distributed systems across a variety of RDBMS, although I'm not convinced it's more efficient for single nodes (e.g., auto-incrementing fields do not require round trips). Thanks for the reply! Just wanted to know while porting a bulk importer for 584.
- Blake On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Sebastian Schaffert < sebastian.schaff...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Blake, > > Auto-increment requires querying the database for the next sequence number > (or the last given ID, depending on the database you use), and that's > adding another database roundtrip. Snowflake is purely in code, very fast > to compute, and safe even in distributed setups. > > Is it causing problems? > > Sebastian > > Blake Regalia <blake.rega...@gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 13. Feb. 2018, > 21:11: > >> What was the justification for using the 'snowflake' bigint type for the >> id fields on nodes, triples and namespaces? >> >> >> - Blake >> >
