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by lucasyvas 248 days ago
These are all non-issues - don’t allow an end user to determine a serial primary key as always.

And the amount of information it leaks is negligible - they might know the oldest and the newest and there’s an infinite gulf in between.

It’s better and more practical than SERIAL or BIGSERIAL in every way - if you need a random/external ID, add a second column. Done.

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Why not serial PK with uuid4 secondary? Every join uses your PK and will be faster.
> if you need a random/external ID, add a second column. Done.

As others have stated, it completely defeats the performance purpose, if you need to lookup using another ID.