Posts by: Wayne E Seguin

In the fall of 2020, VMware sent a curt email to all subscribers on its PWS — Pivotal Web Services — platform informing them that come January 15th, 2021, they would need to move all of their applications to … elsewhere. Understandably, this caused a great deal of confusion among the PWS customer base. It’s

This weekend Dr Nic shared with us a well written article discussing the shortcomings of auto-incrementing (serial) keys and an alternative approach. While discussing the article the question came up about how to go about using UUID keys in our applications and what we have to do within PostgreSQL in order to use them. PostgreSQL