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0 pointserik_seaberg2y ago0 comments

By “conflict” I don’t mean a UUID collision, I agree with the logic that 2^128 is so much entropy that memory corruption is the more likely culprit.

I mean that you can’t rely for correctness on time(X) < time(Y) when X happened before Y. It’s damn hard to keep two commodity server clocks within ±1 ms of each other even within a single LAN, and across production you’re more likely to see ±10 ms, or worse if your sysadmins don’t realize you intend to bet the farm on no clock skew.

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jpgvm2y ago

It's not designed for this use case. It's for cases where events in the same epoch may as well of happened concurrently.

ULID on the other hand does address this case by providing monotonicity within an epoch for a given producer. So would still need to treat each producer as a separate partition of the key space but you could order X > Y as long as both were produced by same producer (which effectively acts like a sequencer in this case).

EDIT: nvm, the UUIDv7 spec -allows- for arbitrary allocation of the remaining 62 bits which can be used as a counter: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-peabody-dispatch-new-u... All points for ULID can also apply to UUIDv7 depending on generation algorithm.

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