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patmorgan23yesterday at 5:47 PM1 replyview on HN

Insert order or time is information. And if you depend on that information you are going to be really disappointed when back dated records have to be inserted.


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scottlambyesterday at 6:05 PM

Right, to ensure your clients don't depend on that information, make the key opaque outside the database through methods such as the ones dfox and formerly_proven suggested, as I said.