Re: What exactly is our CRC algorithm?

On 10/27/2014 06:02 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> I came up with the attached patches. They do three things:
>
> 1. Get rid of the 64-bit CRC code. It's not used for anything, and
> haven't been for years, so it doesn't seem worth spending any effort to
> fix them.
>
> 2. Switch to CRC-32C (Castagnoli) for WAL and other places that don't
> need to remain compatible across major versions.
>
> 3. Use the same lookup table for hstore and ltree, as used for the
> legacy "almost CRC-32" algorithm. The tables are identical, so might as
> well.
>
> Any objections?

I hear none, so committed with some small fixes.
- Heikki