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From: Carlos Moreno <[email protected]>
To: Hannu Krosing <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Adding funtions to postgresql (Not - )e: Please Help:
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:36:29 -0500
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Hannu Krosing wrote:

>Ühel kenal päeval, P, 2005-12-11 kell 17:55, kirjutas Carlos Moreno:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm very new to this list -- I've been using and advocating PostgreSQL for
>>no less than 4 or 5 years now, and have participated in some of the other
>>mailing lists, but never on this one.
>>
>>My question is (short version):  how would one go about adding a new
>>(built-in) function to PostgreSQL?
>>
>
>Ask your question as a separate post, not as an answer t another
>thread :)
>

I know...   Sorry -- My brain must have temporarily shut down when I was
posting.  Wrong subject, wrong link to the rest of the messages...  :-(

> My "feature request" (which again, I'd like to implement it myself) would
>
>>be the ability to do:
>>
>>select sha1('xyz'), sha256('etc');
>>
>>(At least these two -- maybe for completeness it would be good to have
>>sha224, 384, and 512, but I guess SHA1 and SHA-256 would be a very good
>>and sound starting point)
>>
>
>Take a look at the pgcrypto contrib module (in src/contrib/pgcrypto )
>
>Not only does it show how to add functions, but it also provides many of
>the ones you need.
>

Ok.  Will do.

Thanks for the pointer!

Carlos
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