Re: [HACKERS] A small type extension example for the contrib directory (fwd)

> 
> I figured the accompanying code might fit well in the contrib
> directory.  I don't know who to send it to, though, so I'm just
> sending it to you.  :-)  From the README:

/contrib looks like a good place.  We need to re-emphasise contrib,
rather than putting this in the backend.

> 
> | PostgreSQL type extensions for IP and MAC addresses.
> | 
> | I needed to record IP and MAC level ethernet addresses in a data
> | base, and I really didn't want to store them as plain strings, with
> | no enforced error checking, so I put together the accompanying code
> | as my first experiment with adding a data type to PostgreSQL.  I
> | then thought that this might be useful to others, both directly and
> | as a very simple example of how to do this sort of thing, so here
> | it is, in the hope that it will be useful.
> 
> -tih
> -- 
> Popularity is the hallmark of mediocrity.  --Niles Crane, "Frasier"
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