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

Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>

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From: Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Shay Rojansky <roji@roji.org>, 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: 2016-11-29T09:36:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com> writes:
> > Currently the casting is supported from macaddr to macaddr8, but not the
> > other way. This is because, not all 8 byte MAC addresses can be converted
> > into 6 byte addresses.
>
> Well, yeah, so you'd throw an error if it can't be converted.  This is
> no different from casting int8 to int4, for example.  We don't refuse
> to provide that cast just because it will fail for some values.
>

Updated patch attached with added cast function from macaddr8 to
macaddr.

Currently there are no support for cross operators. Is this required
to be this patch only or can be handled later if required?

Regards,
Hari Babu
Fujitsu Australia

Commits

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

  2. perltidy pg_dump TAP tests