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But those sequential IDs are often just not suitable due to security reasons.

• sgarland 3y ago
  Then don’t expose them. Adapt your API, don’t break the DB. But in any case, both of the varieties mentioned still have random components; they aren’t purely sequential. Monotonic for the time component, yes.
  • ahoka 3y ago
    I cannot not expose them, they exist to be exposed.
    • sgarland 3y ago
      You could map them to a v4 UUID that isn’t a PK (or even indexed), and expose that instead.