Re: allow frontend use of the backend's core hashing functions

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Suraj Kharage <suraj(dot)kharage(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: allow frontend use of the backend's core hashing functions
Date: 2020-02-14 16:15:23
Message-ID: 20200214161523.GV24870@fetter.org
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 10:33:04AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 11:26 AM Mark Dilger
> <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> > I have made these changes and rebased Robert’s patches but
> > otherwise changed nothing. Here they are:
>
> Thanks. Anyone else have comments? I think this is pretty
> straightforward and unobjectionable work so I'm inclined to press
> forward with committing it fairly soon, but if someone feels
> otherwise, please speak up.

One question. It might be possible to make these functions faster
using compiler intrinsics. Would those still be available to front-end
code?

Best,
David.
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