Hashids.java VS pg_hint_plan

You basically want Hashids but sequential? Why not simple convert a base 10 (0-9) number to hex? (0-F)

I found hashids [1] to be a great compromise between integer ids in the database and copyable non-enumerable strings on the client.

[1] https://hashids.org/

I wonder how this might compare to just storing regular autoincrementing ints in the database, and converting to/from hashids (https://hashids.org/) at the edge. It eliminates the collision concern and stores more compactly at the cost of a tiny amount of encode/decode when processing requests. You’d want to push it down as close to the database layer as possible to avoid inadvertent int ID leaks; I added native hashids support to clickhouse but I’m not sure what other database support might entail.

Since hashids are not really hashes and are not secure at all this is not even achieved. Hashids can be easily decoded without the salt by a simple brute-force attack described by the authors of hashid themselves right on their website: https://hashids.org/

You don't necessarily need to use UUIDs. You could use something like Hashids to generate random strings from your sequential IDs in a reversible way, so that users can't predict what their values will be, but you can decode them as needed.

You should not use UUIDv4 as a primary key. You can use normal int values and then use hashids to make them safe for URL. UUIDv7 might be good to use as well once they are more widely supported as well.

Okay so it isn't entirely clear to me, can the pg_hint_plan extension (linked in the OP) do the simple thing where we specify, for each table, which index to use?

I can't find it here

https://github.com/ossc-db/pg_hint_plan/blob/master/docs/hin...

Because, the mssql WITH(INDEX()) is simple and intuitive. This hint table stuff seems complicated, and it's unclear to me if they can do the simple thing

pg_hint_plan —— Give PostgreSQL ability to manually force some decisions in execution plans. https://github.com/ossc-db/pg_hint_plan

I really wish the PostgreSQL core team would acknowledge that their stance on that hurts more than helps. Even Oracle with decades of engineering behind it doesn't get execution plans correct 100% of the time and provides a way to tune query execution via hints.

However, TIL that https://github.com/ossc-db/pg_hint_plan exists so that will probably become a standard thing I deploy.

With PostgreSQL, the extension to do it, pg_hint_plan is really good, but not widely used because not included in the core, not even in contrib. The consequence is that people install it only when needing it, without the time to learn hot to hint properly, may think that "my hint is not used" and give up.

cat > Dockerfile <<'DOCKERFILE' # install pg_hint_plan from rpm FROM docker.io/postgres:14 ADD https://github.com/ossc-db/pg_hint_plan/releases/download/REL14_1_4_0/pg_hint_plan14-1.4-1.el8.x86_64.rpm . RUN apt-get update -y ; apt-get install -y alien wget ; alien ./pg_hint_plan*.rpm ; dpkg -i pg-hint-plan*.deb # copy the minimal files to a postgres image FROM docker.io/postgres:14 COPY --from=0 /usr/pgsql-14/share/extension/pg_hint_plan.control /usr/share/postgresql/14/extension COPY --from=0 /usr/pgsql-14/share/extension/pg_hint_plan--1.4.sql /usr/share/postgresql/14/extension COPY --from=0 /usr/pgsql-14/lib/pg_hint_plan.so /usr/pgsql-14/lib/pg_hint_plan.so /usr/lib/postgresql/14/lib ENV PGPASSWORD=postgres CMD ["postgres","-c","shared_preload_libraries=pg_hint_plan,pg_stat_statements"] DOCKERFILE docker build -t pachot/pg_hint_plan --platform=linux/amd64 . docker push pachot/pg_hint_plan

there is a maintained index hint extension: https://github.com/ossc-db/pg_hint_plan - at least as far as 13 (and likely 14).

if we're going to talk about index functionality that would be good and effective for Postgres, an index across all partitioned tables (both normal and unique) would be very much welcomed.

the problem is finding someone to maintain it for life.