It's pronounced Diane. I do data architecture, operations, and backend development. In my spare time I maintain Massive.js, a data mapper for Node.js and PostgreSQL.
That’s what I meant. I wasn’t aware of the restrictions placed on UUIDds until now that I looked it up. I just thought it meant “universally unique”, which would be the case with my proposal, I think. So thanks. One more thing I learned.
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First: it's a little bit funny to read an almost 20 years old article that talks about RAM in order of megabytes :D
I love how hacky his solution was, though it's a little bit weird that the timestamp is at the end, but that's just the order of the two casts.
This part was funny as well:
5 IDs in 3 ms. Oh, the year 2000 :D
Thanks for linking this, it was such a cool read!
As an aside I wonder how slower the
uuidtype in PostgreSQL is in comparison to integer primary keys, today.That’s actually what I meant: concatenation of a timestamp with a UUID to generate a new UUID. Or maybe I just don’t understand your comment :-)
When you said "intermediate character" I took it to mean a string
1567876931|11aca736-c9a9-4266-a2f6-13bd07202c09or some such.That’s what I meant. I wasn’t aware of the restrictions placed on UUIDds until now that I looked it up. I just thought it meant “universally unique”, which would be the case with my proposal, I think. So thanks. One more thing I learned.