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cbsmith
38 days ago
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Why Choose ULIDs over Traditional UUIDs or IDs for...
Isn't that basically a type 4 UUID that you truncated the last 4 bytes from?
mattbillenstein
38 days ago
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The encoding is completely different? And given that encoding I don't go to any great means to store them as a special type in the db - just text. uuid being hexidecimal, databases often want to store them as binary since that's half the bytes...
cbsmith
38 days ago
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You
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encode UUIDs as base58, though I'm with you that that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
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