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20 pointsjasoncabot1y ago3 comments

I use UUIDv7's in multiple places as an efficient index in Postgres. When querying this data I usually need to be able to query between a time range so wanted to have a quick way to generate a reference ID that I could use in a BETWEEN query.

All the simple, fast tools I found online were focused on generating bulk ids or converting from an ID to a timestamp rather than the other way around, so I wrote one myself.

For example if I wanted to find everything that happened between 2025-03-11T13:00:00.000Z and 2025-03-11T13:59:59.999Z I can type in the timestamp, select earliest (or latest) to get the min/max and copy the identifiers of 0195854a-6480-7000-8000-000000000000 and 01958581-52ff-7fff-bfff-ffffffffffff

Sharing in case someone else finds it as useful as I do.

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jasonthorsness1y ago· 1 in thread

These time range queries using UUIDs are super useful. I don't understand why it took so long for UUIDv7 to become a standard. Even MongoDB had to use something custom (ObjectID) rather than UUID because this standard didn't exist.

ranger_danger1y ago

My understanding is UUIDv6 can also be sorted lexically as it also uses a timestamp (v1 has improper endianness for sorting).

esafak1y ago

https://antonz.org/uuidv7/

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