pg_idkit
Infrastructure
postgres extension
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12points
7comments
#1,904of 2,570 in 2022
Top 75%of 2022 by points
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0 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
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What people liked
Rust-built Postgres extensions are an exciting trend
From 1 comment
Hey HN, It turns out choosing a good database-optimized UUID (and deciding whether to use serial, etc) isn't quite so simple, and I finally got a chance to do some exploration,…
hardwaresofton on HN
Objections
Generates text, not native uuid type, limiting some schemes
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This lib actually generates text right now, not uuid. I plan on adding UUID generation (under a different function name) for schemes that support it, but the problem is that not…
hardwaresofton on HN
Requests
Index performance comparable to native uuid
From 1 comment
Are they index-able? I mean the same perf as pg uuid.
Existenceblinks on HN
Questions
Does ULID take 26 bytes as text rather than 16?
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Does this mean that (for example) an ULID won't take 16 bytes, but instead 26?
nextaccountic on HN
Are generated values indexable with same performance as uuid?
From 1 comment
Are they index-able? I mean the same perf as pg uuid.
Existenceblinks on HN