Re: BUG #3965: UNIQUE constraint fails on long column values

From: Francisco Olarte Sanz <folarte(at)peoplecall(dot)com>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #3965: UNIQUE constraint fails on long column values
Date: 2008-02-20 11:21:03
Message-ID: 200802201221.03738.folarte@peoplecall.com
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On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Gregory Stark wrote:

> Unless you need cryptographic security I would not suggest using MD5. MD5
> is intentionally designed to take a substantial amount of CPU resources to
> calculate.

I thought it was the exact opposite, quoting from RFC1321:

The MD5 algorithm is designed to be quite fast on 32-bit machines. In
addition, the MD5 algorithm does not require any large substitution
tables; the algorithm can be coded quite compactly.

F.O.S.

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