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cpburns2009 | on: UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities
The point of shoving the timestamp into it is to make it work well with database indexes. UUIDv4 is awful in that regard.
saagarjha | parent
Sounds like the problem here is that databases need to index on more than one thing at once
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