Partitioning by ULID

Nikolay and Michael discuss partitioning by ULID — revisiting some of the old UUID vs bigint key debate in light of some new UUID specs, and how these can be used for partitioning (by time).  Here are some links to things they mentioned:Nikolay’s episode on UUID (for primary keys) https://postgres.fm/episodes/uuid Postgres TV hacking session with Andrey and Kirk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPq_hiOE-N8UUIDv7 patch https://commitfest.postgresql.org/43/4388/ Use ULID Idempotency Keys (tip 6 in this blog post from Shopify) https://shopify.engineering/building-resilient-payment-systems Nikolay’s howto post on UUID v7 and partitioning with TimescaleDB https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/postgresql-consulting/postgres-howtos/-/blob/main/0065_uuid_v7_and_partitioning_timescaledb.md Hussein Nasser’s YouTube video about the above https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f53-Iw_5ucA UUID proposal that includes UUIDv7 and UUIDv8 (work in progress): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bis/history/  James Blackwood-Sewell advice on more elegant solution using TimescaleDB https://twitter.com/jamessewell/status/1730125437903450129 ULIDs and Stripe IDs (section of Identity Crisis blog post by Brandur) https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/026-ids#ulids Crunchy Bridge changed their default random_page_cost to 1.1 🙌 https://twitter.com/brandur/status/1720477470116422028 UUIDs vs serials for keys (newer post from Christophe Pettus) https://thebuild.com/blog/2023/02/16/uuids-vs-serials-for-keys/ ~~~What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!~~~Postgres FM is brought to you by:Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.aiMichael Christofides, founder of pgMustardWith special thanks to:Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork