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POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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Your name : Daniel F. Boyd
Your email address : Daniel.Boyd@vacationclub.com
System Configuration
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Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) :Intel Pentium
Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) :FreeBSD 3.2
PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5) : PostgreSQL-6.5
Compiler used (example: gcc 2.8.0) :gcc version 2.7.2.1
Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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Ethernet MAC addresses (macaddr type) are not compared correctly for
equality.
Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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select '0000c0:d178d1'::macaddr = '0000c0:0b78d1'::macaddr;
Should return false, as these two mac addresses are different -- but
it returns true.
If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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Apply this patch to postgresql-6.5/src/backend/utils/adt/mac.c
*** mac.c_orig Thu Oct 7 17:12:38 1999
--- mac.c Thu Oct 7 17:12:52 1999
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*** 136,142 ****
((unsigned long)((addr->a<<16)|(addr->b<<8)|(addr->c)))
#define lobits(addr) \
! ((unsigned long)((addr->c<<16)|(addr->e<<8)|(addr->f)))
/*
* MAC address reader. Accepts several common notations.
--- 136,142 ----
((unsigned long)((addr->a<<16)|(addr->b<<8)|(addr->c)))
#define lobits(addr) \
! ((unsigned long)((addr->d<<16)|(addr->e<<8)|(addr->f)))
/*
* MAC address reader. Accepts several common notations.
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