Re: Change sort order on UUIDs?

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Michael Glaesemann wrote:
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> On Jun 14, 2007, at 19:04 , mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc wrote:
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> > For UUID, I
> > would value random access before sequential performance. Why would
> > anybody scan UUID through the index in "sequential" order?
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> AIUI, to allow UUID columns to be indexed using BTREE, there needs to
> be some ordering defined. So regardless of what this ordering is,
> doesn't there need to be some order? And as a (primary?) purpose of
> UUIDs is to be (universally) unique, and the implementation of
> uniqueness constraints in PostgreSQL is based on BTREE indexes, this
> makes the necessity of ordering doubly so. Or have I missed something?
>
> Michael Glaesemann
> grzm seespotcode net
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