[Q]:Generate Unique ID's

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Fri May 23 20:41:36 EDT 2003


Paul Rubin wrote:

> I don't think you can rely on that function to create vast quantities
> of unique ID's, e.g. one for each row of a billion-row database.

If they properly implement UUIDs, why wouldn't they?

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