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

From: Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(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 16:16:47
Message-ID: 68EB30F4-D14C-48F4-AAC7-A4D83EDACE4D@enterprisedb.com
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> On Feb 14, 2020, at 8:15 AM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
>
> 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?

Do you have a specific proposal that would preserve on-disk compatibility?


Mark Dilger
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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