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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: Vitaly Burovoy <vitaly.burovoy@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Julien Rouhaud <julien.rouhaud@dalibo.com>, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-10-12T20:45:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Vitaly Burovoy <vitaly.burovoy@gmail.com> writes:
> P.S.: I still think it is a good idea to change storage format,

I'm not sure which part of "no" you didn't understand, but we're
not breaking on-disk compatibility of existing macaddr columns.
Breaking the on-the-wire binary I/O representation seems like a
nonstarter as well.

If you can think of a way to have one type do it all without breaking
that, then fine; but that seems like a pretty hard problem.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

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

  2. perltidy pg_dump TAP tests