-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I can think of one reason:
Using HEX (uuids) we can merge content from different servers without having to worry about the ids being 1,2,3,etc. - -Elias David M Johnson wrote: > > On Mar 11, 2006, at 4:45 PM, BigLiu wrote: > >> I want to create some customer tables to extend roller. But I have >> question >> regarding why the primary key is defined in hex instead of integer? Will >> this cause any performance problem? > > > I can't really remember why I chose the hex key. I don't think it has a > significant impact on performance. > > - Dave > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEEngVtsNTCOFcV0oRAjThAJ0ekmh9kiOkwDxqfHGlkZUvyDBM1wCfTA9P CsmeJvoHh1/vrxdgRrRqiDE= =djO4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----