Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2013-03-06 11:21:21 -0500, Garick Hamlin wrote:
>> If picking a CRC why not a short optimal one rather than truncate CRC32C?
> CRC32C is available in hardware since SSE4.2.
I think that should be at most a fourth-order consideration, since we
are not interested solely in Intel hardware, nor do we have any portable
way of getting at such a feature even if the hardware has it.
regards, tom lane