btober@computer.org wrote:
>>Dias Bantekas wrote:
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>>>does any one know how to get an md5()-like hash function using
>>>pgcrypto for postgresql 7.3 ? without upgrading to 7.4
>>>
>>>Thanks for any input.
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>>SELECT encode(digest(v_password, 'md5'), 'hex');
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> BTW,
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> /usr/share/pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto.sql
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> is the script that defines the encode and digest functions.
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> --Berend Tober
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thanks hlk, that's exactly what I was looking for.
Now I can create a md5() function and do my job!
encode is a native PG string function, it is not defined in pgcrypto.
Dias