PostgreSQL 18 introduces native support for UUIDv7, a new identifier format that combines the security benefits of random UUIDs with time-based ordering. Unlike UUIDv4's completely random values, UUIDv7 embeds timestamps in the first portion, enabling chronological sorting without separate created_at columns and improving index
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