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Re:Making Postgres Bloom by jordibunster on Thursday July 30, 2015 @05:38PM (#9978361)
Internally using hashtext(), which is not a good idea for a bloom filter for a few reasons, one of which is http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CABUevExTx2whgSpKaoMVow...
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Re:Making Postgres Bloom by usman-m on Thursday July 30, 2015 @05:50PM (#9978450)
Our native implementations of all probabilistic data structures use MurmurHash3, so this isn't a problem. The dumbloom implementation is in no way a good Bloom filter, as the name suggests :)
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