On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 21:28 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> I would never use UUIDS for keys though.

That makes me curious for your reasons.

I see the following disadvantages:

- A UUID requires twice as much storage space as a bigint.

- B-tree indexes are space optimized for inserting at the
  rightmost leaf page, but UUIDs are random.

- UUIDs are more expensive to generate.

On the other hand, many processes trying to insert into
the same index page might lead to contention.

Is there anything I have missed?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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