On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:07:16AM +0200, Dirk Jagdmann wrote:
> this works like charm. Although I did fix the argument for lo_lseek:

Oops; thanks for fixing that.

>  INV_READ  constant integer := 262144; -- 0x40000 from libpq-fs.h

You could also use a hex constant (the cast to integer is necessary):

  INV_READ  constant integer := x'40000'::integer;

>  IF id is null THEN
>    RETURN NULL;
>  END IF;

The above check is unnecessary since the function is marked STRICT,
aka RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT.

> I vote for this function beeing included either somewhere in the
> contrib directories, as you often don't need the full power of
> pgcrypto is md5 suffices for your hashing needs.

You could make a proposal in pgsql-hackers but I think 8.3 is in
feature freeze so don't expect to see it until 8.4, if it's accepted
at all.  There's always PgFoundry :-)

-- 
Michael Fuhr

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