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Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> md5 should be removed.

Really? I've always thought that the arguments against it were
overblown for our use-case.  At any rate, it's likely to be
years before we could practically do that, since it's the best
that older client libraries can manage.

			regards, tom lane