Re: serial + db key, or guid?

[Mark Phillips <mark.phillips@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to everyone who replied. All helpful. I learned and have new ideas to work with.

On Aug 11, 2020, at 10:42 AM, Adam Brusselback <adambrusselback@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I mentioned this in another email thread yesterday about a similar topic, but I'd highly suggest if you do go the UUID route, do not use the standard UUID generation functions, they all suck for database use (v1 also sucks).

I use: https://pgxn.org/dist/sequential_uuids/ written by Thomas Vondara (writeup here: https://2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/sequential-uuid-generators/ )

I don't mind having a time component correlated with my UUID's because it's simply not a threat model that matters for my use case, so I use the time based variant. It helped me immensely with FPW and 

write amplification when I switched from V4 UUIDs. It is still not as fast as an int, but it is much much better than random UUIDs.