| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alex Pilosov <alex(at)pilosoft(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gayland Gump <gumpg(at)pacifier(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: macaddr data type issue |
| Date: | 2001-08-21 21:26:58 |
| Message-ID: | 11839.998429218@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alex Pilosov <alex(at)pilosoft(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm inclined to rip out both special cases, so that an all-zeroes MAC
>> address is handled exactly like any other address. Comments?
> Completely agreed. I stepped on this rake once. All zeros is a valid mac
> address and is very different from null.
Okay, patch applied. Gayland, if you're in a hurry for a solution
you could drop the CVS version of mac.c into 7.1.* --- see
http://www.ca.postgresql.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/mac.c
regards, tom lane
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