From 7ac3eddf19985dd849da64e80e70982c02722535 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Schulz Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 11:15:25 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Cleaned up UIDGenerator docs a bit. Change-Id: I32ca575ca4d7b446b4a27b91d1e8aaa7173c575b --- includes/UIDGenerator.php | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/includes/UIDGenerator.php b/includes/UIDGenerator.php index a0e508c29c..05bb489078 100644 --- a/includes/UIDGenerator.php +++ b/includes/UIDGenerator.php @@ -218,9 +218,7 @@ class UIDGenerator { * Get a statistically unique 128-bit unsigned integer ID string. * The bits of the UID are prefixed with the time (down to the microsecond). * - * Unlike timestampedUID64(), these IDs are suitable as UUIDs, without any enforced - * uniqueness checks in the storage medium, such as a DB. Thus, this can be used to - * make unique values of DB table column where the DBMS does not enforce uniqueness. + * These IDs are suitable as globally unique IDs, without any enforced uniqueness. * New rows almost always have higher UIDs, which makes B-TREE updates on INSERT fast. * They can also be stored reasonably as a "DECIMAL(39) UNSIGNED" in MySQL. * -- 2.20.1