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Re: UUID column as pimrary key?

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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2011, at 1:31 AM, RadosÅaw Smogura wrote:
>
>> * simple to generate, and 128bit random is almost globally unique,
>
> Almost? Should be totally unique, as long as your random source is decent quality.

But I would never rely on that alone. You always have a strategy in
place, in case there's a duplicate.


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GJ

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