| From: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: macaddr 64 bit (EUI-64) datatype support |
| Date: | 2016-10-12 07:32:34 |
| Message-ID: | CAMsr+YER3+Dq7t-MhnK5H4O5vXRu8P6o7QoimfcTMmtgB-MN_A@mail.gmail.com |
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On 12 October 2016 at 14:30, Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> As we are moving to PostgreSQL 10, so are there any plans of backward
> compatiblity
> breakage, so the existing macaddr datatype itself can be changed to support
> both
> 48 and 64 bit MAC addresses. If not, I will try update the POC patch with
> more details
> similar like macaddr datatype.
There's been some minor BC breaking, but breaking on-disk format for
pg_upgrade is a much bigger deal. I'm really not a fan of that idea.
Just use macaddr64 if you want wide MACs.
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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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