I think switching this with zero downtime to do foreign key references with UUIDs will be easier than any of the pain you would deal with from having to do cross-DB joins.
What specific issues are you worried about with the integer key? Usually the issue is dupming data into something like a staging or development environment rather than a production concern. If you attempt to dump 2 datasets into one db you will have a conflict. Or if you write to an environment and then dump into you will have a conflict.
What specific issues are you worried about with the integer key? Usually the issue is dupming data into something like a staging or development environment rather than a production concern. If you attempt to dump 2 datasets into one db you will have a conflict. Or if you write to an environment and then dump into you will have a conflict.