Hackers,
Is there a reason that hashtext() and friends are not documented? Given that
they’re likely to be used more and more for partitioning and sharding, I think
it would be useful to do so, starting with something like this. Comments?
*** a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
***************
*** 1557,1562 ****
--- 1557,1577 ----
<row>
<entry>
<indexterm>
+ <primary>hashtext</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
<literal><function>hashtext(<parameter>string</parameter>)</function></literal>
+ </entry>
+ <entry><type>int</type></entry>
+ <entry>
+ Generate a hash value for string.
+ </entry>
+ <entry><literal>hashtext('greetings, human')</literal></entry>
+ <entry><literal>-1132466231</literal></entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>
+ <indexterm>
<primary>left</primary>
</indexterm>
<literal><function>left(<parameter>str</parameter> <type>text</type>,
Best
David
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