[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6492: Guids No Longer Have Permalink Format

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#6492: Guids No Longer Have Permalink Format
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 Reporter:  brianwhite               |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General                  |     Version:  2.5
 Severity:  trivial                  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch guid featured  |
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Comment (by Denis-de-Bernardy):

 Replying to [comment:60 westi]:
 > I'm not sure there is significant benifit for most installs in switching
 to UUID which from what I can tell from a quick google is mysql specific
 so UUID generation would probably have to become part of the wpdb
 interface.

 On the small benefit, I tend to agree, since the core devs expressed no
 interest in using it downstream in the editor and introduced the new draft
 types instead. Re-opening this ticket feels a bit like beating a dead
 horse, so suggesting we close it back (possibly with a filter as you
 suggest).

 Your Googling is giving you incorrect impressions, by the way.

 For one, other DB products support it under other names: GUID, UUID,
 Identity, Unique Identifier, etc. More importantly, it has less to do with
 being a native DB type (leading to efficient storage and indexing) than it
 has to do with having a means to generate a unique number that can be used
 as a surrogate key on distributed systems.

 With respect to the latter point, PostgreSQL offers the UUID type but no
 means to generate one unless you install a contrib module. Best I
 recollect the pg-hackers discussion, one of the arguments was that
 generating them can, and usually should, be done at the application layer
 anyway.

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