Introducing pg_idkit: A Postgres extension for generating UUIDs

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tl;dr - While guest writing a Supabase blog post on how identifiers work in Postgres, I was able to build pg_idkit which makes it easier to generate new UUIDs in Postgres UUIDs are better supported in Postgres than in a lot of other databases. Postgres has the uuid datatype and you can easily generate UUIDs as primary keys with SQL like this: CREATE TABLE example ( uuid uuid PRIMARY KEY GENERATED…

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