[FLOW3-general] uniq uid

[Dawid Pacholczyk]

Hi

[quote]
In this context the word unique should be taken to mean "practically 
unique" rather than "guaranteed unique"
[/quote]

Now I rly don`t understand why normal int wasn`t used as a primary key.
Beside I can`t sort with this key.

For example when I have integer uid i can always use

select * from table order by uid desc

Now it`s impossible. Can some of the authors explain what were your 
motivations ?

Best regards,
Dawid Pacholczyk

p.s. Don`t get me wrong. FLOW3 is great but I see only disadvantages in 
this solution

W dniu 2011-08-10 10:15, Christian Jul Jensen pisze:
> 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.
>