Re: Snapshot synchronization, again...

From: Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Snapshot synchronization, again...
Date: 2011-02-19 23:02:36
Message-ID: AANLkTin-znHrBv6LZ4K=vb9o8wiOFQ5i=k_pYncea2vR@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> The only consideration against MD5 might be
> that it would make us look quite lame.  We should probably provide
> builtin SHA1 and SHA2 functions for this and other reasons.

In this particular case however the checksum is never exposed to the
user but stays within shared memory. So nobody would notice that we
are still using lame old md5sum :-)

Joachim

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