On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Ed Leafe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 22, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > >> I know you don't want to resurrect a past discussion. But, UUIDs are >> designed to solve these kind of problems, frankly. The decision to go >> with integer IDs is a poor one, and will be negatively affecting the >> scalability and architecture of our systems well into the future. >> >> I'd love to see a discussion around moving away from internal integer >> identifiers and towards UUID internal identifiers at the next summit. > > So would I. For the benefit of those of us who were not involved in > these prior discussions, can you (or anyone else) remember the objections to > string IDs, or, conversely, the reasons in favor of integer IDs?
I don't know who made the decision in the first place, and I only remember IRC discussions, nothing on the mailing list or in a design summit. -jay _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
