Re: CRC function? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: CRC function?
Date
Msg-id 200207081848.g68Iml714880@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: CRC function?  (Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>)
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Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > CRC32 is not installed/supported.
> > > Wrote to the author asking him how difficult it would be to add.
> >
> > Oh, yea, I see that now.  Strange. We use CRC in the backend WAL code.
> > Funny it isn't already coded somewhere.
>
> How difficult you think it would be to have a user visible function for it
> then?

Very easy.  I thought others had already done it already.  Seems it
should be available.

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