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Re: [PATCH] Add crc32(text) & crc32(bytea) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nathan Bossart
Subject Re: [PATCH] Add crc32(text) & crc32(bytea)
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In response to [PATCH] Add crc32(text) & crc32(bytea)  (Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>)
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 02:24:23PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> I vaguely recall that I faced this problem before. Supporting crc32
> was requested on the mailing list [2] and a number of workarounds
> exist in PL/pgSQL [3][4]. Since there seems to be a demand and it
> costs us nothing to maintain crc32() I suggest adding it.

This sounds generally reasonable to me, especially given the apparent
demand.  Should we also introduce crc32c() while we're at it?

-- 
nathan

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