On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:01:17PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was trying to write a function to validate the username and its password in > the pg_shadow table. The function should take in the username and password as > arguments and see if it matches with those in the pg_shadow table. But the md5 > hashed password in pg_shadow doesnot match with what i get when i do > select 'md5' || md5('some_password');
Try this: SELECT 'md5' || md5('some_password' || 'some_user'); -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster