Re: [PERFORM] Creating large database of MD5 hash values

[Decibel!]

On Apr 11, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

Sorry, yes, I'm behind on email... :(

If MD5 values will be your primary data and you'll be storing millions

the most compact and efficient representation possible.

of them, it would be wise to create your own datatype and operators with

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If you do this *please* post it. I really think it would be worth while for us to have fixed-size data types for common forms of binary data; MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 come to mind.

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