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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: Shay Rojansky <roji@roji.org>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>
Cc: Vitaly Burovoy <vitaly.burovoy@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, 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: 2016-11-05T00:19:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 11/4/16 4:55 AM, Shay Rojansky wrote:
>     1. Does everyone agrees that renaming the existing datatype without
>     changing the OID?
> 
> 
> As I said before, Npgsql for one loads data types by name, not by OID.
> So this would definitely cause breakage.

Why would that cause breakage?

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Commits

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

  2. perltidy pg_dump TAP tests