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We used to define a native unary function CRC32() that computes the CRC-32
of a string using the ISO 3309 polynomial that is being used by zlib
and many others.

Often, a CRC is computed in pieces. To faciliate this, we introduce a
2-ary variant of the function that inputs a previous CRC as the first
argument: CRC32('MariaDB')=CRC32(CRC32('Maria'),'DB').

InnoDB and MyRocks use a different polynomial, which was implemented
in SSE4.2 instructions that were introduced in the
Intel Nehalem microarchitecture. This is commonly called CRC-32C
(Castagnoli).

We introduce a native function that uses the Castagnoli polynomial:
CRC32C('MariaDB')=CRC32C(CRC32C('Maria'),'DB'). This allows
SELECT...INTO DUMPFILE to be used for the creation of files with
valid checksums, such as a logically empty InnoDB redo log file
ib_logfile0 corresponding to a particular log sequence number.