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saagarjha | on: UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities
Just use UUIDs as they were meant to be used, as a random identifier. Don't shove random other junk into it!
cpburns2009 | parent
The point of shoving the timestamp into it is to make it work well with database indexes. UUIDv4 is awful in that regard.
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