Re: allow frontend use of the backend's core hashing functions

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 9:03 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 11:26 AM Mark Dilger
> <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> > I have made these changes and rebased Robert’s patches but otherwise changed nothing. Here they are:
>
> Thanks. Anyone else have comments? I think this is pretty
> straightforward and unobjectionable work so I'm inclined to press
> forward with committing it fairly soon, but if someone feels
> otherwise, please speak up.

I've committed 0001 through 0003 as revised by Mark in accordance with
the comments from Suraj. Here's the last patch again with a tweak to
try not to break the Windows build, per some off-list advice I
received on how not to break the Windows build. Barring complaints
from the buildfarm or otherwise, I'll commit this one too.

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