| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Decibel!" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Jon Stewart <jonathan(dot)l(dot)stewart(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Creating large database of MD5 hash values |
| Date: | 2008-05-28 23:37:36 |
| Message-ID: | 200805282337.m4SNba128261@momjian.us |
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Decibel! wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> Sorry, yes, I'm behind on email... :(
>
> > If MD5 values will be your primary data and you'll be storing millions
> > of them, it would be wise to create your own datatype and operators
> > with
> > the most compact and efficient representation possible.
>
>
> If you do this *please* post it. I really think it would be worth
> while for us to have fixed-size data types for common forms of binary
> data; MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 come to mind.
Why do you think it would be worth while?
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