"Robert Wojciechowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been testing the new UUID functionality in 8.3dev and noticed that
> UUIDs are sorted using memcmp in their default in-memory layout,
> ...
> When done that way, you're going to see a lot of index B-tree
> fragmentation with even DCE 1.1 (ISO/IEC 11578:1996) time based UUIDs,

This claim seems like nonsense.  Btrees don't care about the ordering
details of what they index.

                        regards, tom lane

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