THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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- The performance overhead is minimal on modern database systems .(see EnterpriseDB guys know what they are talking about, they are offering Postgres commercial support)
- Character strings give significant flexibility, especially when it is common to migrate data from other systems that have characters in their IDs.
- Being able to prefix IDs is used in a number of places in OFBiz, including prefixes for entire systems when data transfers between them are done to separate ID spaces.