▲ | sgarland a day ago | |||||||
Many distributed databases have mechanisms to use an auto-increment, actually - often, generating large chunks at a time to hand out. | ||||||||
▲ | grapesodaaaaa 15 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
Our “distributed database” at a fortune 90 company spans at least 10 different database products. UUIDv4 lets us sidestep this. Is it bad design? Probably. Is it going to happen at huge companies? Yes. | ||||||||
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