Re: contrib promotion?

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I don't see a strong need for moving pgcrypto into core, and there's at
>> least one argument against it: if someone needs a crypto-free version of
>> postgres for use someplace with benighted laws, they would be screwed.

> Doesn't our inclusion of md5() pretty much blow that argument away? 

No: md5 is hashing, not encryption.  The difference is that you can't
retrieve the original plaintext from a hash.  That is a very large
difference in the eyes of most munitions laws --- encryption is useful
for spies, hashing not so much.
        regards, tom lane