Re: IPv6 link-local addresses and init data type

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 11/7/16 1:13 AM, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
>> Yes, I agree that default zone is the main use case of the original thread.
>> From the RFC 4007, the default zone is used for the global addresses,
>> This may be the main use case with zone id. How about currently just
>> ignoring it and store the actual IP address with the attached patch and
>> handle the rest of the actual zone id support later once the it gets
>> properly standardized?
>
> Well, according to the RFC, the default zone is 0 "typically", which is
> a very weak requirement. So just ignoring it is probably also not right.
>
> So far we have only heard one use case for any of this, which is someone
> wanting to store ::1%0, which is not even a valid address according to
> that same RFC. So this is all on very weak ground.
>
> I think we should just forget about this. It's all a bit too dubious.

+1.

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