Re: pgsql: Improve error handling of cryptohash computations

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Improve error handling of cryptohash computations
Date: 2022-01-13 19:52:12
Message-ID: 3214611.1642103532@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 00:56 +0000, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Improve error handling of cryptohash computations

> This commit changes the signature of the exported "pg_md5_hash" function,
> which breaks my extension that uses this function.
> Is there no way to avoid this API break in the back branches?

Probably none of this should have been back-patched --- the issues
are not so large that they require a risk of breaking things in
the back branches.

regards, tom lane

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