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authorNeil Conway2005-05-20 01:29:56 +0000
committerNeil Conway2005-05-20 01:29:56 +0000
commitf3567eeaf2423c933166edff320ab1a7093f1ac4 (patch)
tree6a77859582d83cf61881f26fdf3a4f3d5e4aa293 /doc/src
parentff0c143a3b6a2f0d091133fe64d23544f1157096 (diff)
Implement md5(bytea), update regression tests and documentation. Patch
from Abhijit Menon-Sen, minor editorialization from Neil Conway. Also, improve md5(text) to allocate a constant-sized buffer on the stack rather than via palloc. Catalog version bumped.
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/func.sgml13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 1b031c0c315..8c6eebc86c5 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.247 2005/05/11 13:58:50 neilc Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.248 2005/05/20 01:29:55 neilc Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -2329,6 +2329,17 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
</row>
<row>
+ <entry><literal><function>md5</function>(<parameter>string</parameter>)</literal></entry>
+ <entry><type>text</type></entry>
+ <entry>
+ Calculates the MD5 hash of <parameter>string</parameter>,
+ returning the result in hexadecimal.
+ </entry>
+ <entry><literal>md5('Th\\000omas'::bytea)</literal></entry>
+ <entry><literal>8ab2d3c9689aaf18 b4958c334c82d8b1</literal></entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
<entry>
<literal><function>decode</function>(<parameter>string</parameter> <type>text</type>,
<parameter>type</parameter> <type>text</type>)</literal>