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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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Can't you just reserve X bits of the primary key to store a shard ID?
You would be inventing some style of UUID. Include a timestamp in front, so that it is sortable and you have Snowflake.
If you are owning every little part of the design in every nuance, sure. But how do you configure this in mysqll, postgres, etc etc. does your favorite framework support this easily.