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> At some point those sequential integer ID's will become so long they might as well be GUIDs Worth bearing in mind that an unsigned 32-bit integer sequence ca
by yellowapple 4y ago
> At some point those sequential integer ID's will become so long they might as well be GUIDs
Worth bearing in mind that an unsigned 32-bit integer sequence can uniquely identify 4,294,967,295 records. If you're really storing that many records (let alone enough to exhaust an even bigger integer sequence), the length of the identifier is probably the least of your worries :)