Re: contrib promotion?

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: contrib promotion?
Date: 2006-07-14 17:59:52
Message-ID: 6b4a757ab629564c6d827599715ff01b@biglumber.com
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>> Doesn't our inclusion of md5() pretty much blow that argument away?
>> (Just asking).
>
> I don't think so because md5 is just a one way hash function. There
> is no method to decrypt anything :).

Actually, I've had to install pgcrypto on more than one occasion for
clients who needed to have sha1 instead of md5. I've had to install
pgcrypto for other functions as well, so +1 for me on coring it, but
at the least please consider adding in sha1.

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