[Building Sakai] Idea: Change the GUID generator for Sakai

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

On 10/01/2014 19:06, Charles Severance wrote:
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> On Jan 10, 2014, at 5:03 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque
> <jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr <mailto:jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr>>
> wrote:
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>> On 09/01/2014 06:35, Matthew Jones wrote:
>>> Okay, I see what you're saying now. I guess what you're talking about
>>> then is.
>>>
>>> Pros over UUID
>>> - Shorten the amount of space needed in the database from 36 to 22
>>> characters for these, possible slight also improvement on the cache
>>
>> Not compatible with old data, AFAICT.
>
> My proposal did not shorten the field length and left existing guids as is.
>
> /Chuck

I only meant I thought this didn't "Shorten the amount of space needed 
in the database" if you had old data.

J-F