From: Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Jon Stewart <jonathan.l.stewart@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Creating large database of MD5 hash values
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 13:43:51 -0400
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On Apr 11, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Sorry, yes, I'm behind on email... :(
> If MD5 values will be your primary data and you'll be storing millions
> of them, it would be wise to create your own datatype and operators
> with
> the most compact and efficient representation possible.
If you do this *please* post it. I really think it would be worth
while for us to have fixed-size data types for common forms of binary
data; MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 come to mind.
--
Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel@decibel.org
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