Text identifiers in PostgreSQL database design

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Whether you are designing a standalone application or a microservice, you will inevitably encounter the topic of sharing identifiers. Whether it’s URLs of web pages, RESTful API resources, JSON documents, CSV exports, or something else, the identifier of specific resources will be exposed. /orders/123 /products/345/variants/1 While an identifier is just a number and…

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