From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Vadim Kogan <vadim(at)xcf(dot)berkeley(dot)edu> |
Cc: | pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, Paul A Vixie <vixie(at)mfnx(dot)net> |
Subject: | Re: IPv6 Support for INET/CIDR types. |
Date: | 2001-09-06 20:45:25 |
Message-ID: | 200109062045.f86KjPV21792@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Can I have a version of this that can be applied? 7.2 beta will start
on Monday.
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> 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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