Re: Creating large database of MD5 hash values - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Decibel! wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> Sorry, yes, I'm behind on email... :(
>
> > If MD5 values will be your primary data and you'll be storing millions
> > of them, it would be wise to create your own datatype and operators
> > with
> > the most compact and efficient representation possible.
>
>
> If you do this *please* post it. I really think it would be worth
> while for us to have fixed-size data types for common forms of binary
> data; MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 come to mind.

Why do you think it would be worth while?

--
  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
  EnterpriseDB                             http://enterprisedb.com

  + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +