Re: UUID column as pimrary key?

On Jan 5, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Mike Christensen wrote:

> As long as all your UUIDs are generated with the same algorithm, they
> are guaranteed to be unique.

There is no requirement that they be generated with the same algorithm in order to be unique. A MAC/time-based UUID cannot duplicate a random one, and vice versa. (Also applies to the 3rd flavor of UUID whose details I do not remember.)

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