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Comment by magicpointer

About UUID as Primary Key and performance, the following article has some insights and benchmarks as well: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/sequential-uuid-generato...

Essentially, they observed sizeable performance improvements by using UUID generators that are tweaked to get more sequentia resultsl. It results in better indexes. The articles compares sequences, random UUIDs and 2 kinds of sequentialish UUID generators.

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