Re: IPv6 Support for INET/CIDR types.

From: Vadim Kogan <vadim(at)xcf(dot)berkeley(dot)edu>
To: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Paul A Vixie <vixie(at)mfnx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: IPv6 Support for INET/CIDR types.
Date: 2001-08-06 06:55:08
Message-ID: 20010805235508.T32686@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu
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Ok, fine, I'm a retard. Sorry. This time there IS an attachment.

On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 11:27:07PM -0700, Vadim Kogan wrote:
> Attached is a patch that adds IPv6 support for inet and cidr datatypes. All
> the functionality that was available for IPv4 is available for IPv6. In
> addition comparison between IPv4 and IPv4-in-IPv6 addresses is available.
>
> **** WARNING: THIS PATCH HAS NOT BEEN TESTED ENOUGH! ****
> (There is still some minor debug stuff left and such)
> The patch is not likely to kill any of your data, but it could crash your
> backend.
>
> Due to me being relatively busy lately, I was hoping that other people might
> want to help me test the patch. If you have a problem, just email me what
> you were doing and I will try to reproduce and fix it. Hopefully we can get
> this small patch to the point of being stable soon enough and have it
> included in the main tree.
>
> Paul: I suppose you can take a look at inet_{net,cidr}_{pton,ntop} stuff,
> test it and eventually include with your code. Sorry for the delay, I had
> this part more or less ready a while back, but never had time to finish the
> postgres-specific part...
>
> Vadim.
>

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Vadim.

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