pvary commented on issue #12660: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/12660#issuecomment-2757577064
Theoretically the UUID could conflict, but the probability is very low. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universally_unique_identifier&oldid=755882275#Random_UUID_probability_of_duplicates > To put these numbers into perspective, the annual risk of a given person being hit by a meteorite is estimated to be one chance in 17 billion,[[5]](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universally_unique_identifier&oldid=755882275#cite_note-5) which means the probability is about 0.00000000006 (6 × 10−11), equivalent to the odds of creating a few tens of trillions of UUIDs in a year and having one duplicate. In other words, only after generating 1 billion UUIDs every second for approximately 100 years would the probability of creating a single duplicate reach 50%. If you have faced the issue, then you might have some entropy issues with the random generator of the system. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@iceberg.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@iceberg.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@iceberg.apache.org
