[GENERAL] Primary keys and speed

2001-09-06 Thread Rob Brown-Bayliss
Hello. I am looking at useing uuid's as primary keys rather than a normal sequence of numbers. The uuids are long text strings like so: 7559e648-a29c-11d5-952f-00c026a18838 The reason for useing them is that it's almost gaurenteed that imported data from another site is going to have a uni

Re: [GENERAL] Primary keys and speed

2001-09-09 Thread Rob Brown-Bayliss
Hi, I have not yet seen an answer to the following, can I assume it's not a problem? On Thu, 2001-09-06 at 19:58, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote: > > Hello. > > I am looking at useing uuid's as primary keys rather than a normal > sequence of numbers. > > The uuids are long text strings like so: >

Re: [GENERAL] Primary keys and speed

2001-09-09 Thread Joe Conway
> > I am looking at useing uuid's as primary keys rather than a normal > > sequence of numbers. > > > > The uuids are long text strings like so: > > > > 7559e648-a29c-11d5-952f-00c026a18838 > > > > The reason for useing them is that it's almost gaurenteed that > > imported data from another site i