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FUNCTIONS / BINARY STRING FUNCTIONS AND OPERATORS

sha512

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Computes the SHA-512 hash of the binary string.

Signatures & examples

sha512 ( bytea ) → bytea
Computes the SHA-512 hash of the binary string.
sha512('abc'::bytea) → \xddaf35a193617abacc417349ae204131​12e6fa4e89a97ea20a9eeee64b55d39a​2192992a274fc1a836ba3c23a3feebbd​454d4423643ce80e2a9ac94fa54ca49f
Version history 2
  1. PG 12 → 13changed
  2. PG 10 → 11added

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