Ability to generate CUID an alternative to UUID via Official Extension Support
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Feature request
Right now my project is in prisma and nestjs, Now one feature of prisma was ability to autogenerate CUID().
I use cuid() for all my primary keys. I heavily invested on cuid because of its advantage over uuid.
Right now there is an available snippet in github to create a cuid extension. But I only trust and only love to use a official support of supabase.
CUID has a several benefits compare to Auto Incremented IDs and UUID. One of the benefits is
Collision-resistant ids optimized for horizontal scaling and binary search lookup performance.
We can look more here at https://github.com/ericelliott/cuid
something alternative to this
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/functions-uuid.html
Hey @sandbox-apps - it looks interesting. I'll move this over to our supautils repo for investigation. If we decide to add it, it should probably be inside an extension and we can use supautils for this.
Note that it's probably not going to happen soon (unless one of the community pick it up), as we're focused mostly on stability for the next few months
pg_idkit would cover this as already requested:
supabase/postgres#318
supabase/supabase#9333
supabase/supabase#9500
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and already showcased in Choosing a Postgres Primary Key
unfortunately according to this reddit comment the extension might not yet meet the Supabase's requirements to be included