Re: pgcryto strangeness...

Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> writes:
> Yeah, it does... but it also tells me I'm SOL for 7.1.3 even though
> pgcrypto comes with a DECODE() function (only supports 'hex' and
> 'base64'). Any other ideas? <:~) -sc

So, create yourself another function. In pgcrypto.sql.in I see

CREATE FUNCTION digest(bytea, text) RETURNS bytea
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME',
'pg_digest' LANGUAGE 'C';

You could add

CREATE FUNCTION digest(text, text) RETURNS bytea
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME',
'pg_digest' LANGUAGE 'C';

which should work fine since the internal representation of text isn't
really different from that of bytea.

regards, tom lane