Re: contrib promotion?

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> 
>>>> Doesn't our inclusion of md5() pretty much blow that argument away?
>>>> (Just asking).
>>> I don't think so because md5 is just a one way hash function. There
>>> is no method to decrypt anything :).
> 
> Actually, I've had to install pgcrypto on more than one occasion for
> clients who needed to have sha1 instead of md5. I've had to install
> pgcrypto for other functions as well, so +1 for me on coring it, but
> at the least please consider adding in sha1.

I don't have a very strong opinion on that but sha1() is something I
need on a regular base too from pgcrypto.

Stefan