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The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite
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this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2026
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I'm glad this covers UUIDv7. Unless you need cryptographically-random, unpredictable row IDs, using UUIDv7 helps a lot with the performance by making the keys ordered at least.