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		sgarland on Dec 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How does a B-tree make queries fast? Then don’t expose them. Adapt your API, don’t break the DB. But in any case, both of the varieties mentioned still have random components; they aren’t purely sequential. Monotonic for the time component, yes.

ahoka on Dec 25, 2023 [–]

I cannot not expose them, they exist to be exposed.

sgarland on Dec 25, 2023 | [–]

You could map them to a v4 UUID that isn’t a PK (or even indexed), and expose that instead.

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