Re: UUID or auto-increment

Greeitngs,

* Ron (ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> On 8/10/20 11:38 AM, Ravi Krishna wrote:
> >Finally UUID results in write amplication in wal logs.  Keep that in mind
> >if your app does lot of writes.
>
> Because UUID is 32 bytes, while SERIAL is 4 bytes?

and because it's random and so will touch a lot more pages when you're
using it...

Avoid UUIDs if you can- map them to something more sensible internally
if you have to deal with them.

Thanks,

Stephen