Archive for June 30th, 2009

Checking An MD5 Hash

Validating An MD5 Hash MD5 (message digest algorithm 5) is a cryptographic hash that generates a 128-bit digital signature of a message. The message could be text or a file. The md5 message is a unique id and in theory, no two files could ever have the same md5 hash. ...
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Configuring Connection Pooling With Postgres Using PGPOOL-II

Overview of PGPOOL-II By default, Postgres doesn't come with a database connection pooling feature. This functionality is provided by PGPOOL-II, an open source project. For high traffic databases, you typically use database connection pooling to reduce the amount of time it takes to get a database connection and speed up access...
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