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We've had multiple collisions with uuid v4. I'm not overly familiar with the examples, but in one case, the collision was found because the collision happened i
by sethammons 9y ago
We've had multiple collisions with uuid v4. I'm not overly familiar with the examples, but in one case, the collision was found because the collision happened in the same account! Customer: "Why do these two events have the same id?" Us: "Wow." I think we determined that it was a limitation in the random number generator in the Perl lib we were using. To avoid that, I believe the solution was to go with uuid v1 plus a nonce of some sort.
- cesarb 9y agoIf you have collisions with UUID v4, something is really broken with your UUID generator. It's not a "limitation", it's a critical bug.