Re: Data Encryption in PostgreSQL, and a Tutorial. - Mailing list pgsql-general

> Dias Bantekas wrote:
>
>> does any one know how to get an md5()-like hash function using
>> pgcrypto for postgresql 7.3 ? without upgrading to 7.4
>>
>> Thanks for any input.
>
> SELECT encode(digest(v_password, 'md5'), 'hex');

BTW,

/usr/share/pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto.sql

is the script that defines the encode and digest functions.

--Berend Tober