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		hdjrudni 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other o... What is special about Postgres' column type? Is it not just binary(16)?
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cpburns2009 4 days ago [–]

PostgreSQL's UUID type is convenient. But yes it's pretty much just a 16 byte type.

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