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by smaccona 1132 days ago
Didn’t know this - true as of MySQL 8.X. I would say “shocking” if it wasn’t in keeping with a number of dubious decisions made over the years. We are using MySQL, but thankfully are generating UUIDs in our app layer.

Kludgy, non-cryptographically-safe UUID4 implementation in MySQL: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32965744