On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:23:30PM -0600, Kenneth Marshall wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I think having SHA1 makes sense --- there are probably still valid
uses for it.
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