Re: 64-bit hash function for hstore and citext data type

On 9/26/18 12:20 PM, amul sul wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Commit[1] has added 64-bit hash functions for core data types and in the same
> discussion thread[2] Robert Haas suggested to have the similar extended hash
> function for hstore and citext data type. Attaching patch proposes the same.
> 

I wonder if the hstore hash function is actually correct. I see it 
pretty much just computes hash on the varlena representation. The 
important question is - can there be two different encodings for the 
same hstore value? If that's possible, those two versions would end up 
with a different hash value, breaking the hashing scheme.

I'm not very familiar with hstore internals so I don't know if that's 
actually possible, but if you look at hstore_cmp, that seems to be far 
more complex than just comparing the varlena values directly.


regards

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