Re: CRC32 function

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 16:14:04 -0400,
  Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
> Ilia Kantor wrote:
> > Both backend and users may have a nice use of the function.
> >
> >
> >
> > Nice and fast hashing when one doesn't need encryption.
>
> We already have MD5 encryption in the server.  Why would someone want
> CRC32?

Lower CPU utiliization.