Re: Document hashtext() and Friends?

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
To: Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Document hashtext() and Friends?
Date: 2012-02-21 20:14:03
Message-ID: 1BF9BDB0-4AB1-431C-AC39-68369F1AE23D@justatheory.com
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On Feb 21, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote:

> And hashtext *has* changed across versions, which is why Peter Eisentraut published a version-independent hash function library: https://github.com/petere/pgvihash

Yes, Marko wrote one, too:

https://github.com/markokr/pghashlib

But as I’m about to build a system that is going to have many billions of nodes, I could use a variant that returns a bigint. Anyone got a pointer to something like that?

Thanks,

David

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