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preseinger | 2 years ago

it's commonly totally sufficient for IDs to represent a rough sort order

millisecond precision is great for a lot of use cases

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willis936|2 years ago

I didn't say that it wasn't. Hell even ms is too precise for many use cases (usually where date is used instead).

What I said was that it's useful to be able to select timestamp precision independently of UUID implementation. One size that fits all fits none best.

dtech|2 years ago

Lucky for you, they also define UUIDv8 as a free-for-all where you can do whatever you want, and nanosecond precision is one of the examples given in the RFC.