> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>
> > The person who said they were going to work on the IP type has not
> > responded to my requests for a status, and nothing has been added in
> > that area in 6.4.
>
> That would be me. What I said was that it looked like the thing to do
> was to pick the best ideas the three implementations available, and
> that I, at least, would be doing that for my local needs. I still
> plan to do that, but having recently become a father for the first
> time, and having lots of projects going at work, I haven't found time
> yet. Unless someone beats me to it, I will be doing this soon, and
> probably within the next couple of weeks, but obviously not in time
> for the 6.4 beta period. Besides, I have no idea how to integrate a
> new type as a built-in type, so someone else would have to do that.
Tom, Paul Vixie has said he can work on it, and in fact he already sent
in his version a month ago. I just had a baby three months ago, so I
know how busy you must be.
Unfortunately, there are few people who can integrate Paul's stuff with
the current ip_and_mac code, to get the best of both. I would hate to
throw out the ip_and_mac stuff without knowing if it has certain
advantages over his in certain areas.
I can take care of putting the code into the main PostgreSQL system, but
I need someone to give me a definitive cidr/ip type that I can
integrate.
People really want this for 6.4. We are in beta, but we can add this
type IF we can get it integrated within the next week or ten days.
When do you think you can you look over both versions, and send me one
good version to work with?
I can take it from there, and Paul and I can work out any bugs in the
code.
Even if you just say, "Paul's is better, throw out ip_and_mac", that is
all we need.
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