
UUID in Manticore: A Practical Guide
A practical guide to using UUID as a document ID in Manticore Search 28.5.0: SQL, JSON API, /bulk, automatic ID generation, errors, and replication.

A practical guide to using UUID as a document ID in Manticore Search 28.5.0: SQL, JSON API, /bulk, automatic ID generation, errors, and replication.

Starting with Manticore Search 28.5.0, you can use a UUID as the document ID. Here we look at how to drop the mapping to numeric IDs, who generates the UUID, and what limitations still remain.

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