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A Complete Guide to UUIDs in PostgreSQL

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24 Mar 2021CPOL7 min read 10.7K   3  
Universally Unique IDs (UUIDs) use random numbers to create unique IDs. UUIDs use more storage, but they provide a good solution for distributed databases and security.
In this article, we will see why primary keys are important, different types of keys you can use, and a primary key with values that are guaranteed to have never, ever been used in the entire universe (with a 1/10^37 chance of error).

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