On Monday 11 February 2008 20:46:09 Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Marc Cousin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [snip] > > > Still, I'd like to know if the md5 field is always a multiple of 32 bits > > in length ? > > md5 is _always_ exactly 128 bits. It's frequently represented as a 32 > character hex string, but that's just a friendly way to display it. > > If you use a bytea field (for example) you can lock it in at 128 bits. > That will help overall by only taking up 20 bytes instead of 36 bytes > for the text string representation, but you have the 4-byte length > header either way.
Yes but in the md5 field, we can also have sha1 or sha256. And maybe something else in the future ? Those 3 are 128, 160 and 256 bits, so they are ok for my algorithm... I bet I should just work with this assumption ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
