Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 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?
True, but if there are several million rows, a 32-bit CRC isn't really
useful (too many collisions). I can see it useful in a few cases, but
not for general usefulness.
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