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

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Vitaly Burovoy <vitaly.burovoy@gmail.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: 2016-10-17T19:38:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 10/12/16 4:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> The larger picture here is that we got very little thanks when we squeezed
> IPv6 into the pre-existing inet datatype; there's a large number of people
> who just said "no thanks" and started using the add-on ip4r type instead.

I don't think that is a correct account.  People used the ip4r extension
because it was faster, had more functionality, and didn't have those
stupid network masks to worry about.  ip4r does in fact also provide a
type that can contain ip4 and ip6, which one ought to use nowadays.

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Commits

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

  2. perltidy pg_dump TAP tests