From: Aaron Schulz <aschulz@wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 19:15:25 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Cleaned up UIDGenerator docs a bit.
X-Git-Tag: 1.31.0-rc.0~21430
X-Git-Url: https://git.heureux-cyclage.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7ac3eddf19985dd849da64e80e70982c02722535;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git

Cleaned up UIDGenerator docs a bit.

Change-Id: I32ca575ca4d7b446b4a27b91d1e8aaa7173c575b
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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.
 	 *