On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 9:58 AM hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com> wrote:

Hi,
So, we have various sha* functions.

And I recently got asked about using them as a based for unique index
over long texts.
Normally one would do it with md5(text), but the person asking wanted to
use sha().

I think I'd push back, asking them if they really need cryptographically-secure hashing (which they most probably don't).

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