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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-9200:
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Are you worried about bugs causing sequence conflicts?

> Sequences
> ---------
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-9200
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9200
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
>            Assignee: Robert Stupp
>             Fix For: 3.x
>
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> UUIDs are usually the right choice for surrogate keys, but sometimes 
> application constraints dictate an increasing numeric value.
> We could do this by using LWT to reserve "blocks" of the sequence for each 
> member of the cluster, which would eliminate paxos contention at the cost of 
> not being strictly increasing.
> PostgreSQL syntax: 
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-createsequence.html



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