Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Introduce 64-bit hash functions with a 64-bit seed.

2017-08-31 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > Introduce 64-bit hash functions with a 64-bit seed. Buildfarm is not terribly impressed with this. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-committers mailing list (pgsql-committers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postg

[COMMITTERS] pgsql: Introduce 64-bit hash functions with a 64-bit seed.

2017-08-31 Thread Robert Haas
Introduce 64-bit hash functions with a 64-bit seed. This will be useful for hash partitioning, which needs a way to seed the hash functions to avoid problems such as a hash index on a hash partitioned table clumping all values into a small portion of the bucket space; it's also useful for anything