Re: Primary keys and speed

Hi, I have not yet seen an answer to the following, can I assume it's
not a problem?

On Thu, 2001-09-06 at 19:58, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I am looking at useing uuid's as primary keys rather than a normal
> sequence of numbers.
>
> The uuids are long text strings like so:
>
> 7559e648-a29c-11d5-952f-00c026a18838
>
> The reason for useing them is that it's almost gaurenteed that
> imported data from another site is going to have a unique identifier.
>
> But I was wondering if this will impact on the speed of the database.
>
> In the long run the application does not need to be blindingly fast as 99%
> of the time it is waiting on human interaction.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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Rob Brown-Bayliss
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