On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 09:54:07PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On ons, 2011-08-31 at 13:12 -0500, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote: > > Hmm, this thread seems to have petered out without a conclusion. Just > > wanted to comment that there _are_ non-password storage uses for these > > digests: I use them in a context of storing large files in a bytea > > column, as a means to doing data deduplication, and avoiding pushing > > files from clients to server and back. > > But I suppose you don't need the hash function in the database system > for that. >
It is very useful to have the same hash function used internally by PostgreSQL exposed externally. I know you can get the code and add an equivalent one of your own... Regards, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
