Forum Post: RE: GUID or not?

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Thanks for the wrap up Thomas, that is quite a relief. We are heavily relying on GUID(GENERATE-UUID) and use the generated values as globally unique keys for merging records in distributed databases. In the beginning of this thread I was shocked to find that this might not be safe in hindsight when the indexes are not defined as case-sensitive (which the are not). But now it seems to be safe after all, as the documentation has always suggested. So the only problem appears to be with base64-encode(generate-uuid).

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