Re: hashtext function disappears in 7.2?

george young wrote:
> Since I upgraded from 7.0.3 to 7.2, I can't find the
> sql function "hashtext". Why has it been discontinued?
>
> Is there some alternate new way to take a text value and
> get an unique integer? I use this as an argument to the contributed
> (and invaluable!) user_write_lock_oid(int) function to manage
> advisory locks on arbitrary named objects.

Can you use MD5 in /contrib/crypto?

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