Hi!
I would be very happy to add an UUID type to Drizzle. The only thing
to be aware of though is that it is a 16byte INT which means it will
be slower on comparison. I personally think this is fine, but it is
something to consider.
Cheers,
-Brian
On Aug 12, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Robert Hodges wrote:
Hi everyone,
Some of the previous data type conversations reminded me of a question
that's been on my mind for a while. What do you think of dropping
auto-increment keys and replacing them completely with UUIDs?
Auto-incrementing is one of the banes of horizontal scaling so it
seems
reasonable to substitute something that works across partitions and
data
copies. Or at least to give application developers an opportunity to
suppress it.
Thanks, Robert
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