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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: pgsql-general mailing list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Can we get sha* function over text, that could be used in index?
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:48:33 +0100
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On 18.02.26 15:58, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
> And while I kinda undestand, create-conversion, server-encoding, I don't
> really*grok* why we can't have immutable conversion to bytea. And/or
> versions of sha* functions that simply work on text.

Hash functions fundamentally work on a sequence of bytes, so bytea is 
the right type.  The encoding of text into bytes is complicated, so it 
seems better if you handle that yourself depending on the local 
requirements.

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