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		rapidlua on Jan 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: 128-bit, roughly-ordered, URL-safe UUIDs With random keys updates are going to touch way more pages than with sequential ones. It increases IO due to more dirty buffers and journaling.

tomsmeding on Jan 22, 2021 [–]

Point taken. Quite true.

Tostino on Jan 22, 2021 | [–]

More reading on this for Postgres: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/sequential-uuid-generato...

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