On 2 Mar 2009, at 19:17, Brian Candler wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:11:12AM -0800, Chris Anderson wrote:
>> I wonder if there's a way to get roughly ascending uuids (v1-ish)
>> without the security issues that come from having the originating  
>> node
>> permanently inscribed on each document...
>
> If doing bulk inserts: the client can ask for a uuid, take the top N  
> bits,
> and append its own M-bit sequence number to the end?

it can also get document-count UUIDs sort them and bulk insert docs
in that order. :)

Cheers
Jan
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