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tbls
- FLaNK 25 December 2023
- tbls
- Tools to use to make high level Architecture diagrams
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Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software
Autogenerated database documentation is often pretty hit and miss but tbls[1] does a pretty good job in that space. Especially when you comment on your tables, fields, views, functions etc (which is a good habit anyway!) the output is quite useful
[1] https://github.com/k1LoW/tbls
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Lesser Known PostgreSQL Features
In-database comments combined with something like https://github.com/k1LoW/tbls make for very cheap database documentation.
No affiliation with tbls except that I'm a big fan
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Recommendations for a CLI-tool to generate DB diagrams?
Check out tbls. You can create a ERD in one command
ksuid
- What happens after 100 years?
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Zero Downtime Postgres Upgrades
OP here - we avoid sequences in all but one part of our application due to a dependency. We use [KSUIDs][1] and UUID v4 in various places. This one "gotcha" applies to any sequence, so it's worth calling out as general advice when running a migration like this.
[1]: https://segment.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-uuid/
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Bye Sequence, Hello UUIDv7
UUID v4 isn't large enough to prevent collisions, that is why segment.io created https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid which is 160bit vs the 128bit of a UUIDv4.
- You Don't Need UUID
- A Brief History of the UUID
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Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
Assuming you don't need to use UUIDv7 (or any UUID's) then https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid provides a much bigger keyspace. You could just append a string prefix if you wanted to namespace, but the chance of collisions of a KSUID is many times smaller than a UUID of any version.
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Unexpected downsides of UUID keys in PostgreSQL
KSUID's are have temporal-lexicographical order plus 128 bits of entropy, which is more than UUIDv4.
https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid
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UUIDs are so much better than autoincrementing ids and it's not even close
That's why you use ksuid (https://segment.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-uuid/) or, if you're willing to go with a draft spec you could go with the new UUID formats https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bi...
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What Happened to UUIDv2?
Interesting in more history of UUIDs? Twilio Segment's blog has an amazing history lesson about how they came to be.
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Which UUID package do you use? and why?
I use the ksuid from segment. https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid
What are some alternatives?
dbmate - :rocket: A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool.
ulid - Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier (ULID) in Python 3
prisma-client-go - Prisma Client Go is an auto-generated and fully type-safe database client
pg-ulid - ULID Functions for PostgreSQL
nanoid - A tiny (124 bytes), secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript
plantuml-syntax - vim syntax file for plantuml
ulid-mssql - Implementation of ULID generator For Microsoft SQL Server
mermaid - Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
python-ksuid - A pure-Python KSUID implementation
postgres-elasticsearch-fdw - Postgres to Elastic Search Foreign Data Wrapper
uuid7 - UUID version 7, which are time-sortable (following the Peabody RFC4122 draft)