On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
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>> Why aren't you satisfied with hashtext('foo') ?
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> Collisions, mostly.
Why even bother with a hash function when you can just have multiple
table pull from a shared sequence? AFAICT, this solves the OP's
problem with no downsides (I used the approach with excellent results
in a ported cobol app which had pessimistic locking requirement).
merlin