Comment by sam_lowry_ 6 days ago or ULIDs or any other partially sortable ids. 3 comments sam_lowry_ Reply sebazzz 5 days ago ULID are not necessarily sortable, just UUIDs consensed in a shorter string by using more characters than 0-9A-F sam_lowry_ 5 days ago ULID = Unique Lexicographically sortable IDentifier ;-) jszymborski 5 days ago ULIDs are sorta the opposite of the HMAC method, where you can't query for the nth ID, but you can sort the IDs.
sebazzz 5 days ago ULID are not necessarily sortable, just UUIDs consensed in a shorter string by using more characters than 0-9A-F sam_lowry_ 5 days ago ULID = Unique Lexicographically sortable IDentifier ;-)
jszymborski 5 days ago ULIDs are sorta the opposite of the HMAC method, where you can't query for the nth ID, but you can sort the IDs.
ULID are not necessarily sortable, just UUIDs consensed in a shorter string by using more characters than 0-9A-F
ULID = Unique Lexicographically sortable IDentifier ;-)
ULIDs are sorta the opposite of the HMAC method, where you can't query for the nth ID, but you can sort the IDs.