On 21 February 2012 20:30, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Geoghegan writes:
>> My pg_stat_statements normalisation patch actually extends the
>> underlying hash_any() function to support 8 byte results,
>
> ... er, what? That seems rather out of scope for that patch,
> not to mention unnecessary.
Well
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:14:03PM -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>
> > And hashtext *has* changed across versions, which is why Peter Eisentraut
> > published a version-independent hash function library:
> > https://github.com/petere/pgv
Peter Geoghegan writes:
> My pg_stat_statements normalisation patch actually extends the
> underlying hash_any() function to support 8 byte results,
... er, what? That seems rather out of scope for that patch,
not to mention unnecessary.
regards, tom lane
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On Feb 21, 2012, at 12:14 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>> And hashtext *has* changed across versions, which is why Peter Eisentraut
>> published a version-independent hash function library:
>> https://github.com/petere/pgvihash
>
> Yes, Marko wrote one, too:
>
> https://github.com/markokr/pgha
On Feb 21, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
> And hashtext *has* changed across versions, which is why Peter Eisentraut
> published a version-independent hash function library:
> https://github.com/petere/pgvihash
Yes, Marko wrote one, too:
https://github.com/markokr/pghashlib
B
On 21 February 2012 20:01, Tom Lane wrote:
> "David E. Wheeler" writes:
>> Is there a reason that hashtext() and friends are not documented?
>
> Yes. They are internal functions that exist for the convenience of the
> system, not for users. We've discussed this before, and decided that
> we don
On Feb 21, 2012, at 15:01, Tom Lane wrote:
> "David E. Wheeler" writes:
>> Is there a reason that hashtext() and friends are not documented?
>
> Yes. They are internal functions that exist for the convenience of the
> system, not for users. We've discussed this before, and decided that
> we d
"David E. Wheeler" writes:
> Is there a reason that hashtext() and friends are not documented?
Yes. They are internal functions that exist for the convenience of the
system, not for users. We've discussed this before, and decided that
we don't want people to rely on them continuing to have exac
Hackers,
Is there a reason that hashtext() and friends are not documented? Given that
they’re likely to be used more and more for partitioning and sharding, I think
it would be useful to do so, starting with something like this. Comments?
*** a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgm
