alt Hacker NewsYou can always treat IDs as UUIDv4, while actually storing them as UUIDv7—combining the benefits of both. From your perspective, they’re just UUIDv4
You can always treat IDs as UUIDv4, while actually storing them as UUIDv7—combining the benefits of both. From your perspective, they’re just UUIDv4
One impact of the_mitsuhiko's second point is during debugging.
Usually if you see an id in your http logs you can simply search your database for that id. The v4 to v7 indirection creates a small inconvenience.
The mismatch may be resolved if this was available as a fully transparent database optimization.