Re: Filtering by UUID

On Sep 29, 2016, at 16:03 , Colin Morelli <colin.morelli@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hey list,
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> I'm using UUID primary keys in my application. I need to add pagination, and am trying to avoid OFFSET/LIMIT. I do
havea created_at timestamp that I could use, but it's possible for multiple records to be created at the same timestamp
(postgresoffers millisecond precision here, I believe?) 
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> Is there an efficient way to filter based on the time component of UUID v1s? WHERE id > 'some-uuid' doesn't seem to
work,as it looks like it's just performing a lexicographic sort on the hex representation of the UUID. Or,
alternatively,does anyone have other suggestions on paginating large data sets? 

Why not just sort on (created_at, uuid) (ie us the UUID just to force a complete ordering)?