On ons, 2011-08-31 at 13:12 -0500, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote: > Hmm, this thread seems to have petered out without a conclusion. Just > wanted to comment that there _are_ non-password storage uses for these > digests: I use them in a context of storing large files in a bytea > column, as a means to doing data deduplication, and avoiding pushing > files from clients to server and back.
But I suppose you don't need the hash function in the database system for that. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
