Re: [HACKERS] cidr - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] cidr
Date
Msg-id 199807211502.LAA29018@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] cidr  (Nick Bastin <nbastin@rbbsystems.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
> Paul A Vixie wrote:
> > > I like INET too.  It is up to you.
> >
> > How do folks feel about polymorphism between IPv4 and IPv6?  Should we (a)
> > make it work (either by making internal_length=10 or going variable length)
> > or (b) just make this thing IPv4 only and take care of IPv6 separately/later?
>
> Making it IPv4 only just means we'll have to do it again later, and having
> IPv6 functionality now would be good for those of us who are currently working
> with IPv6 networks...

Oh.  OK.  We do have variable-length types.

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