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If you have distributed data creation. (Creating data on the client). And a CRDT style mechanism for syncing, then you can’t use bigserial because of the simple fact that it is sequential. The best solution here is uuidv7. Since you can generate these at the client even when offline.

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That's not true, you can increment by 2, 10, 100, or any number. I'm not saying that's necessarily the best solution, but it's not true that you can't use it.

But if you’re distributed or offline incrementing by an arbitrary amount can still create collisions unless you’re willing to increment by very very large amounts at random, in which case you’ve effectively reinvented uuid

No, every server will have its own series:

  Server 1: [1 4 7]
  Server 2: [2 5 8]
  Server 3: [3 6 9]

Or whatever is appropriate. You can even add/change this later on.

Again, I'm not saying it's necessarily the best solution, I'm just saying it's possible. I'm not really interested in a long discussion about uuid vs. serial because it's been done to death a million times. Previous poster said it's impossible and that's just flat-out wrong.

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