diff --git a/graph/src/schema/entity_type.rs b/graph/src/schema/entity_type.rs
index 90f65a360fe..f9fe93cc90e 100644
--- a/graph/src/schema/entity_type.rs
+++ b/graph/src/schema/entity_type.rs
@@ -151,8 +151,12 @@ impl EntityType {
         self.schema.is_object_type(self.atom)
     }
 
-    pub fn new_vid_form(&self) -> bool {
-        self.schema.new_vid_form()
+    // Changes the way the VID field is generated. It used to be autoincrement. Now its
+    // based on block number and the order of the entities in a block. The latter
+    // represents the write order across all entity types in the subgraph.
+    pub fn strict_vid_order(&self) -> bool {
+        // Currently the agregations entities don't have VIDs in insertion order
+        self.schema.strict_vid_order() && self.is_object_type()
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/graph/src/schema/input/mod.rs b/graph/src/schema/input/mod.rs
index 93147874b8b..9ca31592c11 100644
--- a/graph/src/schema/input/mod.rs
+++ b/graph/src/schema/input/mod.rs
@@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@ impl InputSchema {
         Some(EntityType::new(self.cheap_clone(), obj_type.name))
     }
 
-    pub fn new_vid_form(&self) -> bool {
+    pub fn strict_vid_order(&self) -> bool {
         self.inner.spec_version >= SPEC_VERSION_1_3_0
     }
 }
diff --git a/store/postgres/src/relational/ddl.rs b/store/postgres/src/relational/ddl.rs
index dfa8ea5119b..a19972ea268 100644
--- a/store/postgres/src/relational/ddl.rs
+++ b/store/postgres/src/relational/ddl.rs
@@ -116,9 +116,11 @@ impl Table {
             Ok(cols)
         }
 
-        // Currently the agregations entities don't have VIDs in insertion order
-        let new_vid_form = self.object.new_vid_form() && self.object.is_object_type();
-        let vid_type = if new_vid_form { "bigint" } else { "bigserial" };
+        let vid_type = if self.object.strict_vid_order() {
+            "bigint"
+        } else {
+            "bigserial"
+        };
 
         if self.immutable {
             writeln!(
diff --git a/store/postgres/src/relational/prune.rs b/store/postgres/src/relational/prune.rs
index a209a72c9cd..10a9cff1626 100644
--- a/store/postgres/src/relational/prune.rs
+++ b/store/postgres/src/relational/prune.rs
@@ -243,8 +243,6 @@ impl TablePair {
 
         let vid_seq = format!("{}_{VID_COLUMN}_seq", self.src.name);
 
-        let old_vid_form = !(self.src.object.new_vid_form() && self.src.object.is_object_type());
-
         let mut query = String::new();
 
         // What we are about to do would get blocked by autovacuum on our
@@ -254,9 +252,9 @@ impl TablePair {
                   "src" => src_nsp.as_str(), "error" => e.to_string());
         }
 
-        // Make sure the vid sequence
-        // continues from where it was
-        if old_vid_form {
+        // Make sure the vid sequence continues from where it was in case
+        // that we use autoincrementing order of the DB
+        if !self.src.object.strict_vid_order() {
             writeln!(
                 query,
                 "select setval('{dst_nsp}.{vid_seq}', nextval('{src_nsp}.{vid_seq}'));"
diff --git a/store/postgres/src/relational_queries.rs b/store/postgres/src/relational_queries.rs
index 44df113713d..add24a98155 100644
--- a/store/postgres/src/relational_queries.rs
+++ b/store/postgres/src/relational_queries.rs
@@ -2548,7 +2548,7 @@ impl<'a> QueryFragment<Pg> for InsertQuery<'a> {
         let out = &mut out;
         out.unsafe_to_cache_prepared();
 
-        let new_vid_form = self.table.object.new_vid_form() && self.table.object.is_object_type();
+        let strict_vid_order = self.table.object.strict_vid_order();
 
         // Construct a query
         //   insert into schema.table(column, ...)
@@ -2575,7 +2575,7 @@ impl<'a> QueryFragment<Pg> for InsertQuery<'a> {
             out.push_sql(CAUSALITY_REGION_COLUMN);
         };
 
-        if new_vid_form {
+        if strict_vid_order {
             out.push_sql(", vid");
         }
         out.push_sql(") values\n");
@@ -2595,7 +2595,7 @@ impl<'a> QueryFragment<Pg> for InsertQuery<'a> {
                 out.push_sql(", ");
                 out.push_bind_param::<Integer, _>(&row.causality_region)?;
             };
-            if new_vid_form {
+            if strict_vid_order {
                 out.push_sql(", ");
                 out.push_bind_param::<BigInt, _>(&row.vid)?;
             }
@@ -5096,7 +5096,7 @@ impl<'a> QueryFragment<Pg> for CopyEntityBatchQuery<'a> {
     fn walk_ast<'b>(&'b self, mut out: AstPass<'_, 'b, Pg>) -> QueryResult<()> {
         out.unsafe_to_cache_prepared();
 
-        let new_vid_form = self.src.object.new_vid_form() && self.src.object.is_object_type();
+        let strict_vid_order = self.src.object.strict_vid_order();
 
         // Construct a query
         //   insert into {dst}({columns})
@@ -5118,7 +5118,7 @@ impl<'a> QueryFragment<Pg> for CopyEntityBatchQuery<'a> {
             out.push_sql(", ");
             out.push_sql(CAUSALITY_REGION_COLUMN);
         };
-        if new_vid_form {
+        if strict_vid_order {
             out.push_sql(", vid");
         }
 
@@ -5186,7 +5186,7 @@ impl<'a> QueryFragment<Pg> for CopyEntityBatchQuery<'a> {
                 ));
             }
         }
-        if new_vid_form {
+        if strict_vid_order {
             out.push_sql(", vid");
         }