Matija Grabnar wrote: > Bill Moseley wrote: >> What you are proposing is if item 7 is instead encoded as >> 84bc3da1b3e33a18e8d5e1bdd7a18d7a then they are less likely to try >> other numbers because of, ... why? Because it's too daunting of a task? >> It's a big scary md5 instead of a primary key? >> > Well, in a way. Because the space they need to search to find the "next" > item in a md5 or similar scheme is many orders of magnitude larger than > in a system where the numbers are consecutive (i.e. o(1)).
That's why I just use uuids and be done with it, if not as pks, then at least as an alternate key for external references to a resource. But I giress... /me trots back to coding...awaiting his Catalyst beer stein.
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