Re: IPv6 Support for INET/CIDR types.

OK, I have forwarded my saved emails to Paul. Paul, there was great
confusion over how these data types show display addresses and masks,
and a compromise was hammered out that we are reluctant to throw out.

I wish our email archives where searchable online and I could point you
to the issues. Can someone summarize the issues, specifically how did
we change what Paul originally gave us so it can be done again? All I
have for detail is this from Tom Lane:

The patch as given reverts the I/O behavior of the inet datatypes
to what it originally was, rather than the compromise behavior that
was hammered out at great length before 7.1. (I'd give a link to
those discussions if fts.postgresql.org were working :-()

Seems the archives were down back then in October too. :-(

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Paul Vixie wrote:
> here's the problem. i want to replace the inet_{net_}{ntop,pton}
> functions in postgres with the real ones from bind. however, your
> versions have been patched. so before i can replace them i need
> to understand exactly what you've patched and move that logic to
> the part of postgres that calls these functions. then i can import
> the real versions, which include vadim's ipv6 logic. then i can
> work on changing postgres to use the new ipv6 logic in these functions.
>
> any help with that first step would be appreciated.
>
> > From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
> > Message-Id: <200202221810(dot)g1MIA6C29715(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCHES] IPv6 Support for INET/CIDR types.
> > In-Reply-To: <200110161420(dot)f9GEKZH87408(at)as(dot)vix(dot)com>
> > To: Paul A Vixie <paul(at)vix(dot)com>
> > Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 13:10:06 -0500 (EST)
> > Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>,
> > Vadim Kogan <vadim(at)xcf(dot)berkeley(dot)edu>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL96 (25)]
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
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> >
> > Paul A Vixie wrote:
> > > > > Seems this will have to wait for 7.3.
> > > >
> > > > Why?
> > >
> > > because i didn't get it fixed in time.
> > >
> > > > and, to be a bit more riendly to those of us stuck on 56k lines, could you
> > > > avoid re-sending, repeatedly, large patch files?
> > >
> > > sorry.
> >
> > Paul, do you have an updated patch that can be applied to 7.3?
> >
> > --
> > Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us
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>
>

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