Re: Add SQL function for SHA1

From: Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Sehrope Sarkuni <sehrope(at)jackdb(dot)com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add SQL function for SHA1
Date: 2021-01-26 04:23:30
Message-ID: 20210126042330.GA17623@aart.rice.edu
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 01:06:29PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:42:25PM -0500, Sehrope Sarkuni wrote:
> > +1 to adding a SHA1 SQL function. Even if it's deprecated, there's plenty
> > of historical usage that I can see it being useful.
>
> Let's wait for more opinions to see if we agree that this addition is
> helpful or not. Even if this is not added, I think that there is
> still value in refactoring the code anyway for the SHA-2 functions.
>

+1 I know that it has been deprecated, but it can be very useful when
working with data from pre-deprecation. :) It is annoying to have to
resort to plperl or plpython because it is not available. The lack or
orthogonality is painful.

Regards,
Ken

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