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Avoid using Guid.CreateVersion7 in .NET

.NET: Avoid using Guid.CreateVersion7

TL;DR: Guid.CreateVersion7 in .NET 9+ claims RFC 9562 compliance but violates its big-endian requirement for binary storage. This causes the same database index fragmentation that v7 UUIDs were designed to prevent. Testing with 100K PostgreSQL inserts shows rampant fragmentation (35% larger indexes) versus properly-implemented sequential GUIDs.

Guid.CreateVersion7 method was introduced in .NET 9 and is now included for the first time in a long-term-supported .NET 10. Microsoft docs for Guid.CreateVersion7 state “Creates a new Guid according to RFC 9562, following the Version 7 format.” We will see about that.

RFC 9562

RFC 9562 defines a UUID as a 128-bit/16-byte long structure (which System.Guid is, so far so good). RFC 9562 requires UUIDv7