Not that I’m aware of. Some commercial DBMS vendors are experimenting with integrations, but I haven’t really seen much in the Postgres ecosystem.
What excites me in this release is the quality of the new hash functions. I’ve built many over the years but never felt they were worth sharing until now. Having two included here was a personal milestone for me, since I’ve always admired how good xxHash and aHash are and wanted to build something of similar caliber.
The new hashes should be directly useful in databases, for example improving JOIN performance. And the fingerprinting interfaces based on 52-bit modulo math with double-precision FMA units open up another path. They aren’t easy to use and won’t apply everywhere, but on petabyte-scale retrieval tasks they can make a real impact.
What excites me in this release is the quality of the new hash functions. I’ve built many over the years but never felt they were worth sharing until now. Having two included here was a personal milestone for me, since I’ve always admired how good xxHash and aHash are and wanted to build something of similar caliber.
The new hashes should be directly useful in databases, for example improving JOIN performance. And the fingerprinting interfaces based on 52-bit modulo math with double-precision FMA units open up another path. They aren’t easy to use and won’t apply everywhere, but on petabyte-scale retrieval tasks they can make a real impact.