Re: Question regarding fast-hashing in PGSQL

Stephen Conley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.performance
Message-ID <CAFbQXuFuToNoTkC3o=G_8KfU-3gtw1SyrMGPaFaQiieaSt=DMA@mail.gmail.com>
This should work perfectly for me.  Thank you so much!

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 12:50 PM Adam Brusselback <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I've had a similar issue in the past.
>
> I used the md5 hash function and stored it in a UUID column for my
> comparisons. Bigger than a bigint, but still much faster than string
> comparisons directly for my use case.
> UUID works fine for storing md5 hashes and gives you the ability to
> piggyback on all the index support built for them.
>
> Hope that helps,
> -Adam
>
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