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by Too 1246 days ago
How do you decode a hash?
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ah sorry, I was not very precise about "hashed".

What I meant (and have done in the past) is to encrypt/decrypt the auto-incrementing ID at the application boundaries.

If the OP is really using a one-way hash then yes, you would have to store both IDs.