Re: contrib promotion? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: contrib promotion?
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Msg-id 6b4a757ab629564c6d827599715ff01b@biglumber.com
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In response to Re: contrib promotion?  (John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com>)
Responses Re: contrib promotion?  (Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>)
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>> Doesn't our inclusion of md5() pretty much blow that argument away?
>> (Just asking).
>
> I don't think so because md5 is just a one way hash function. There
> is no method to decrypt anything :).

Actually, I've had to install pgcrypto on more than one occasion for
clients who needed to have sha1 instead of md5. I've had to install
pgcrypto for other functions as well, so +1 for me on coring it, but
at the least please consider adding in sha1.

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