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bambax
12 days ago
Why would you use UUIDs a primary keys? Let SQLite use rowids internally (which is automatic and invisible), and have a different (indexed) column with UUID if you need that for publishing the ID somewhere.
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elcomet
12 days ago
UUID as key is useful when you have a distributed system where multiple workers create items independently
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victorbjorklund
12 days ago
Because another app can then create the id and add it to the db later.
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