Re: md5(large_object_id)

On 10/7/15 10:34 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Still, I'd welcome a native, streaming md5(loid) which is
> bound to be more optimized by design.

It would be nice if we had an interface to TOAST that allowed for
streaming (well, really chunking) data to a function. That wouldn't help
in this particular case, but it would significantly expand the
usefulness of a streaming version of md5 and all the other hash operators.
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