Re: Snapshot synchronization, again... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joachim Wieland
Subject Re: Snapshot synchronization, again...
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Msg-id AANLkTin-znHrBv6LZ4K=vb9o8wiOFQ5i=k_pYncea2vR@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Snapshot synchronization, again...  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> The only consideration against MD5 might be
> that it would make us look quite lame.  We should probably provide
> builtin SHA1 and SHA2 functions for this and other reasons.

In this particular case however the checksum is never exposed to the
user but stays within shared memory. So nobody would notice that we
are still using lame old md5sum :-)


Joachim


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