On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 03:02:02PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2/19/18 09:06, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
>>> So I suggest these patches that expose the new functions sha224(),
>>> sha256(), sha384(), sha512(). That allows us to make the SSL and SCRAM
>>> tests more robust, and it will allow them to be used in general purpose
>>> contexts over md5().
>>
>> Nice patch. I wonder though whether tests should include hashing
>> non-ASCII characters as well.
>
> The input is of type bytea, so the concept of non-ASCII characters
> doesn't quite apply.
Encoding issues is a reason to use bytea output in some cases. For
logical decoding this is for example also why an interface like
pg_logical_slot_peek_binary_changes() exists... Back to the patch.
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Michael