Re: [HACKERS] Re: CIDR/IP types. Was: [GENERAL] big numbers]

On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:

> > I would be glad to help with integrating it. We need a decision,
> > people. Who do we want to do this, and how are we going to handle
> > integrating this into the beta, if we want to?
> >
> > BTW, does pg_upgrade work for people. That may be a quick fix for the
> > beta people to get these new system types WITHOUT dump/reload.
>
> Better yet, they _should_ use pg_upgrade, so it gets some beta testing
> too :)
>
> I can help with making the types built-in, once there is code ready.
> However, until we finish tracking down the indexing problems I'd like to
> stay away from unrelated changes to the catalogs and backend code to
> avoid confusing the issue.
>
> Now that I think about it, that would have probably included the
> snprintf changes, since now people trying to do debugging may not be
> able to build with a new tree until that gets integrated...

I'm going to be spending this afternoon on one of my Solaris 2.5.1
machines making sure that it does compile...I have to do an upgrade here
anyway :) Well, not "here", but at work...