Re: UUID v7

Nikolay Samokhvalov <nik@postgres.ai>

From: Nikolay Samokhvalov <nik@postgres.ai>

To: Sergey Prokhorenko <sergeyprokhorenko@yahoo.com.au>

Cc: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>, pgsql-hackers mailing list <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Przemysław Sztoch <przemyslaw@sztoch.pl>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Nick Babadzhanian <pgnickb@gmail.com>, Mat Arye <mat@timescaledb.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>, Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov@gmail.com>, "Kyzer Davis (kydavis)" <kydavis@cisco.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, "brad@peabody.io" <brad@peabody.io>, Kirk Wolak <wolakk@gmail.com>

Date: 2024-01-25T04:40:30Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 1:52 PM Sergey Prokhorenko <
sergeyprokhorenko@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> That's right! There is no point in waiting for the official approval of
> the new RFC, which obviously will not change anything. I have been a
> contributor to this RFC
> <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bis-14.html#name-acknowledgements>
> for several years, and I can testify that every aspect imaginable has been
> thoroughly researched and agreed upon. Nothing new will definitely appear
> in the new RFC.
>

From a practical point of view, these two things are extremely important to
have to support partitioning. It is better to implement limitations than
throw them away.

Without them, this functionality will be of a very limited use in
databases. We need to think about large tables – which means partitioning.

Nik