On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Tom Lane<[email protected]> wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes: >> We've developed some code to implement fixed-length datatypes for well >> known digest function output (MD5, SHA1 and the various SHA2 types). >> These types have minimal overhead and are quite complete, including >> btree and hash opclasses. > >> We're wondering about proposing them for inclusion in pgcrypto. > > Wasn't this proposed and rejected before? (Or more to the point, > why'd you bother? The advantage over bytea seems negligible.)
well, one nice things about the fixed length types is that you can keep your table from needing a toast table when you have a bytea in it. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
