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		mkleczek 41 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres Network protocol designers know better and by default embed protocol version number in message format spec. I guess you can assign 3-4 bits for identifier version number as well. And yes - for long living data dealing with compatibility issues is inevitable so you have to take that into account from the very beginning.

vrighter 40 days ago [–]

when I designed network protocols this is exactly what I did. I also did so in file formats had to create. But a database primary kea is not somewhere where that can be easily done.

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