| From: | Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Laura Smith <n5d9xq3ti233xiyif2vp(at)protonmail(dot)ch> |
| Cc: | postgre <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: UUID type question |
| Date: | 2022-02-18 14:27:40 |
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 3:24 PM Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 3:06 PM Laura Smith
> <n5d9xq3ti233xiyif2vp(at)protonmail(dot)ch> wrote:
> > Is there anything inherently "special" about the UUID type ? i.e. if I store a UUID in a text is it "worse" ?
>
> uuid is stored as 16 binary bytes.
> Store it as text, and that's 36 chars (assuming UTF-8, double-that in
> UTF-16, if that's possible in PG).
> Or encode it as base-62 instead of hexa (base-16, with dashes), to use
> only 22 chars as text (in UTF-8 or ASCII)
You might also be interested in KSUID, e.g. https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid
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