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

Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>

From: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
To: Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-10-12T06:52:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Haribabu Kommi
<kommi.haribabu@gmail.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.

Er, I had thought that we should not use Postgres 10 as a reason for
backward-incompatible breakages, at least not to increase them into a
such amount that upgrading would be a pain.
-- 
Michael


Commits

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

  2. perltidy pg_dump TAP tests