Previously, hex_encode looked up each nibble of the input separately. We now use a larger lookup table containing the two-byte encoding of every possible input byte, resulting in a 1/3 reduction in encoding time. Reviewed by Tom Lane, Michael Paquier, Nathan Bossart, David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANWCAZZvXuJMgqMN4u068Yqa19CEjS31tQKZp_qFFFbgYfaXqQ%40mail.gmail.com
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/. In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation.html.
The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.