Re: UUID v7

From: Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br>
To: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
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Subject: Re: UUID v7
Date: 2024-01-24 20:47:07
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I understand your point, but
'2000-01-01' :: timestamp and '1900-01-01' :: timestamp are both valid
timestamps.

So looks strange if user can do
select uuidv7(TIMESTAMP '2000-01-01')
but cannot do
select uuidv7(TIMESTAMP '1900-01-01')

Regards
Marcos

Em qua., 24 de jan. de 2024 às 14:51, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
escreveu:

>
>
> > On 24 Jan 2024, at 22:00, Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br> wrote:
> >
> > Is enough from 1970 ?
> Per standard unix_ts_ms field is a number of milliseconds from UNIX start
> date 1970-01-01.
>
> > How about if user wants to have an UUID of his birth date ?
>
> I've claimed my
> 0078c135-bd00-70b1-865a-63c3741922a5
>
> But again, UUIDs are not designed to store timestamp. They are unique and
> v7 promote data locality via time-ordering.
>
>
> Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

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