Re: pgcryto strangeness... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgcryto strangeness...
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Msg-id 13214.1010266771@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pgcryto strangeness...  (Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>)
Responses Re: pgcryto strangeness...  (Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>)
Re: pgcryto strangeness...  (Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>)
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Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes:
> Yeah, it does... but it also tells me I'm SOL for 7.1.3 even though
> pgcrypto comes with a DECODE() function (only supports 'hex' and
> 'base64').  Any other ideas?  <:~)  -sc

So, create yourself another function.  In pgcrypto.sql.in I see

CREATE FUNCTION digest(bytea, text) RETURNS bytea AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME', 'pg_digest' LANGUAGE 'C';

You could add

CREATE FUNCTION digest(text, text) RETURNS bytea AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME', 'pg_digest' LANGUAGE 'C';

which should work fine since the internal representation of text isn't
really different from that of bytea.
        regards, tom lane


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