Re: Add SQL function for SHA1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kenneth Marshall
Subject Re: Add SQL function for SHA1
Date
Msg-id 20210126042330.GA17623@aart.rice.edu
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Add SQL function for SHA1  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
Responses Re: Add SQL function for SHA1  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 01:06:29PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:42:25PM -0500, Sehrope Sarkuni wrote:
> > +1 to adding a SHA1 SQL function. Even if it's deprecated, there's plenty
> > of historical usage that I can see it being useful.
> 
> Let's wait for more opinions to see if we agree that this addition is
> helpful or not.  Even if this is not added, I think that there is
> still value in refactoring the code anyway for the SHA-2 functions.
> 

+1 I know that it has been deprecated, but it can be very useful when
working with data from pre-deprecation. :) It is annoying to have to
resort to plperl or plpython because it is not available. The lack or
orthogonality is painful.

Regards,
Ken



pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: "Hou, Zhijie"
Date:
Subject: RE: Parallel INSERT (INTO ... SELECT ...)
Next
From: Bruce Momjian
Date:
Subject: Re: Add SQL function for SHA1