UUID instead of INT auto-increment

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Is there a way to configure all the ids & keys to use UUIDs instead of INTs with auto increment?

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Only on v5

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I am running v5

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Is doing this a config option or change somewhere (that is yet to be documented)?

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It’s likely not yet implemented

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I’ve seen this around meanwhile

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I’m not sure this is what I’m looking for. This seems like an extra field like uid but with a uuid format.

What I’m looking for is to change the id type to a uuid and have it generated in the database, not in code. Like using the Postgres UUID type, not a string.

This would mean the ID fields, all the foreign keys in the relation tables, etc…

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Yeah, I was under the impression this would be introduced in v5 by default, but apparently not