David Fetter wrote:
> And the cat's out of the bag there, too.  Have you tried to get a
> system that doesn't include strong crypto running any time recently?

Well yes, I have recently been involved in a large deployment of such systems.  
The details are a bit too involved for this thread, but the notion expressed 
elsewhere in this thread to make it easy to separate or rip out the different 
parts are exactly what facilitated that project.  Now I am not saying that we 
must keep pgcrypto away from the core code forever for the benefit of these 
specific and well-funded external requirements.  But these requirements do 
exist, and I haven't seen a good reason _for_ moving pgcrypto in this thread.  
Note that the original post actually wanted an sha1 function for MySQL 
compatibility.

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