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Comment by jmole

5 days ago

Unless it's a key that needs to be sortable (e.g. insertion order) or a metric/descriptor of some kind, I'm not sure why UUID would be overused or inappropriate for use.

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efitz  5 days ago

Random UUIDs are not compressible. They are also frequently stored as 38-character strings.

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