# Post ID's reused?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-ids-reused/246982
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [November 28, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-ids-reused/246982 "2022-11-28T23:58:09Z")
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### Author: ![Martin\_Lim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martin_lim/32/246473_2.png) [@Martin\_Lim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Martin_Lim)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-ids-reused/246982/1 "2022-11-28T23:58:09Z")

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Hello, I’m wondering if Post Id’s can ever be reused? So if I create and delete a Post, will that ID ever be assigned to a new post?

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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-ids-reused/246982/2 "2022-11-29T00:08:26Z")

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That would be extremely bad practice. These IDs are all over logs. Best to use new fresh ones.

Discourse appears not to re-use ids for Posts that are ‘deleted’ (read ‘destroyed’) 👍