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Re: macaddr 64 bit (EUI-64) datatype support

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Shay Rojansky <roji@roji.org>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Vitaly Burovoy <vitaly.burovoy@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Julien Rouhaud <julien.rouhaud@dalibo.com>, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-11-19T19:54:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> Let's create a new data type for this which supports old and new types,
> add what casts make sense, and call it a day.  Changing the data type
> name out from under people is not helping anyone.

+1.  I do not think changing behavior for the existing type name is
going to be a net win.  If we'd been smart enough to make the type
varlena from the get-go, maybe we could get away with it, but there
is just way too much risk of trouble with a change in a fixed-length
type's on-the-wire representation.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Add support for EUI-64 MAC addresses as macaddr8

  2. perltidy pg_dump TAP tests