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This post discusses using UUIDs as primary keys (but never exposing them), and an additional integer key on each table as the public facing ID.

https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-01-01-sql-keys-in-depth.html

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16050047




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