Re: crypt(table.field) ?

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:20:53PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> will trillich writes:
>
> > i know "password" can be used in creating/altering user
> > information (as used via GRANT and REVOKE) but is there any
> > facility within postgres to CRYPT() a value?
>
> See contrib/pgcrypto for hashing functions.

I've got 7.0.3potato on my debian system, and i've also done

apt-get install postgresql-contrib

which looks like it's got lots of meat to it, but

dpkg -L postgresql-contrib | grep crypt

shows nada.

Care to explain -- in terms a Debian newbie might grok --
what "contrib/pgcrypto" means?

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