Yeah its hard to get folks to come into the modern age of computering. FOr some reason there's tremendous resistance to abandoning the old crusty buggy solutions (indexes and handles that collide and need remapping) and using stuff that just works (identifying everything immutable with a uuid). Folks say 'its too many bits' and 'it takes too long'. Then they proceed to write megabytes worth of patchy code to try and save 64 bits worth of identifier.
As for database efficiency, that's a problem. But its a problem with the database - certainly no comfort for the user. But databases could do better, and I think they will one day come to handle uuids with less grief to the developer.
Yeah, exactly. Building weakness into one's protocol because of an unhealthy attachment to saving a few bits and an even more unhealthy attachment to MySQL just seems foolish.
