Re: macaddr data type issue - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: macaddr data type issue
Date
Msg-id 11839.998429218@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: macaddr data type issue  (Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>)
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Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com> writes:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm inclined to rip out both special cases, so that an all-zeroes MAC
>> address is handled exactly like any other address.  Comments?

> Completely agreed. I stepped on this rake once. All zeros is a valid mac
> address and is very different from null.

Okay, patch applied.  Gayland, if you're in a hurry for a solution
you could drop the CVS version of mac.c into 7.1.* --- see
http://www.ca.postgresql.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/mac.c

            regards, tom lane

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