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From Duncan Smith
Subject Wire protocol encoding for 'inet' type is defined unreliably
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Msg-id 1427322818.3613692.245294397.12EB3E23@webmail.messagingengine.com
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Responses Re: Wire protocol encoding for 'inet' type is defined unreliably  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi,

I noticed today that the network encoding of the 'inet' type uses values
derived from the system header file <sys/socket.h> to tag whether the
address is IPv4 or IPv6.

In particular, <src/include/utils/inet.h> defines PGSQL_AF_INET to be
AF_INET, which is 2 on my system.  Wouldn't it be better to use a more
constant constant for this purpose?

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Duncan Smith

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