[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:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Database     |     Version:  2.5
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by here):

 Perceived goal of this 8 year old ticket:  Reliable unique identifiers for
 WordPress posts table.

 Replying to [comment:74 nacin]:

 > What's the plan here? I see a few:
 >  1. Stop using GUIDs for anything other than UUID usage. Attachments are
 guilty here.
 >  2. Start using real UUIDs for GUID.

 3. Require folks who need a UUID to filter or ignore GUID.
 4. Add new UUID field and leave GUID in place for compatibility?

 If the current guid field didn't exist, adding a unique identifier would
 be an obvious enhancement.  Since we do not, in fact, currently have a
 working unique identifier, lets add one.

 Changing the existing guid field may break things in core and 3rd party
 plugins, so we can leave it there as deprecated.

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