Calling relational databases (HN’s preferred storage system) naive probably sounds like trolling to most people. There are also plenty of distributed relational databases. People downvote comments that sounds like trolling or flamebait.

I use UUIDs but I don’t know why they would magically make my Postgres a distributed system. I like them because the client can generate them offline.

What? Really? Naïve in this context means a general purpose solution that doesn't "know" about your use case. Have people never heard of a naïve algorithm or solution?

Distributed relational databases aren't naïve in this context. MySQL is.

> Have people never heard of a naïve algorithm or solution?

I have a fairly recent PhD in algorithms and I haven't heard naïve used this way. When I hear naïve, it usually just means "does the immediately obvious thing".

For what you're trying to say, the term I'm familiar with is "oblivious", e.g. "oblivious routing" or "oblivious local search", occasionally with modifiers such as "cache-oblivious".

I've never heard use of the word "oblivious", but my education is 15 years old at this point.

Naive is an emotionally loaded word outside of academic communities.

"naïve systems" doesn't make sense.

Nobody is assuming simply adding a UUID transforms a system into a distributed one.

The parent comment is about exposing UUIDs probably in order to not expose the sort order of the database.