Re: How to get an md5/sha256 hash of a really large object in psql? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alex Shan
Subject Re: How to get an md5/sha256 hash of a really large object in psql?
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In response to Re: How to get an md5/sha256 hash of a really large object in psql?  (Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name>)
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Great, thanks a lot!

I will test it on my system.

Myself, I tried to do it in C with libpq, but got stuck at reading a LO...


On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 at 19:57, Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name> wrote:
> “SELECT md5(lo_get(loid));” doesnt work — “large object is too large”.
>
> Is there any other way to do it?

Is plpython3u [1] an option for you?  In that case you can use Python's hashlib
in a custom function and feed every page from pg_largeobject to a selected hash
function.
...
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Erik

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