Re: CRC32 function

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Ilia Kantor <ilia(at)obnovlenie(dot)ru>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: CRC32 function
Date: 2005-08-25 21:24:41
Message-ID: 20050825212441.GA27690@wolff.to
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 16:14:04 -0400,
Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Ilia Kantor wrote:
> > Both backend and users may have a nice use of the function.
> >
> >
> >
> > Nice and fast hashing when one doesn't need encryption.
>
> We already have MD5 encryption in the server. Why would someone want
> CRC32?

Lower CPU utiliization.

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