Re: Linux.conf.au 2003 Report

Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>

From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
To: Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>
Cc: Greg Copeland <greg@CopelandConsulting.Net>, Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-02-02T17:04:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:35:15PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> >
> > Sure. But you still want to be able to say (and can say, in some [many?]
> > socket API implementations) that you want to accept only IPv4 or only IPv6
> > connections. I also want to be able to say the same thing in my database.
>
> You just create either an ipv4 or ipv6 socket.

Um...I'm talking about inserting data into a column in postgres. How do
I declare that a column can accept IPv4 addresses only?

And why will *nobody* address the question of whether this type should
include ISO/OSI addresses or not, and why?

cjs
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