Re: Re: [RFC][PATCH]: CRC32 is limiting at COPY/CTAS/INSERT ... SELECT + speeding it up

Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
>> This sounds familiar. If you search back in the archives around 2004
>> or so I think you'll find a similar discussion when we replaced the
>> crc32 implementation with what we have now.

> Fwiw here's the thread (from 2005):
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general/43811

I read through that thread and couldn't find much discussion of
alternative CRC implementations --- we spent all our time on arguing
about whether we needed 64-bit CRC or not.

			regards, tom lane