Re: [Firebird-devel] HASH function (CORE-4436)

[Dmitry Y. <fir...@ya...>]

19.07.2017 17:44, Leyne, Sean wrote:
> 
> Why do we need to extend the current function?
> 
> Why not create separate, built-in, functions for each hash type with names* that align with the common algorithm name?
> 
> MD2()
> ...
> MD5()
> SHA0()
> SHA1()
> SHA_224()
> ...
> SHA512_256()
> ...
> SHA3_224()
> ...
> SHA3_512()

Too many new keywords to be reserved.

> (would save needing to look at documentation to determine the supported algorithms)?

HASH(X USING MD5) is self-documentary as well.


Dmitry