[FLOW3-general] uniq uid

Christian Jul Jensen julle at typo3.org
Wed Aug 10 10:15:13 CEST 2011


Hi David

Dawid Pacholczyk wrote:
> I guest this is like UID in TYPO3. I want to ask why it`s varchar with
> long strings and not standard auto incremented integer ?

FLOW3 uses UUIDs as ids, they are not integers, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier

I am not sure exactly which uuid scheme is used.

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Christian Jul Jensen
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