Re: [HACKERS] Did the inet type get backed out?

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: darcy(at)druid(dot)net (D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain)
Cc: tih(at)nhh(dot)no, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Did the inet type get backed out?
Date: 1998-10-16 15:21:09
Message-ID: 199810161521.LAA08867@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Thus spake Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
> > darcy(at)druid(dot)net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
> > > But it worked before. In fact it still works on another system with
> > > an earlier compile.
> >
> > "Works" for me, using a cvs update from yesterday morning (the morning
> > after the BETA 2 freeze), modulo the fact that someone committed
> > changes to #ifdef out ("#ifdef BAD") all the calls to the actual inet
> > parser routines, effectively causing all data to be rejected. Since
>
> That's odd. I know that Bruce #ifdef'd out the core of the _new_
> functions I sent in but I didn't realize that he took the existing
> ones out too.
>
> > we had an implementation that actually worked, and the changes that we
> > wanted to make were compatible with currently stored data, it would
> > have been smarter to leave it working until the changes were ready to
> > be committed. It's better to be able to keep testing something that
> > doesn't have all the wanted functionality than to disable it until an
> > unknown time in the future! :-)
>
> Yes, I agree. Bruce, can we put the inet_in and inet_out functions
> back the way they were?
>
> However, I have put all the code back in locally for testing so that
> isn't why mine isn't working. I'll try with today's sup.

I just ifdef'ed out the calls to the non-existant functions. That is
all.

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