well, now i wish we hadn't gutted the ipv6 support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Paul A Vixie
Subject well, now i wish we hadn't gutted the ipv6 support
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Msg-id 200104211727.KAA12640@redpaul.mfnx.net
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Responses Re: well, now i wish we hadn't gutted the ipv6 support  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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my original CIDR type implementation used BIND's inet_ntop() and inet_pton()
which therefore included latent support for ipv6.  it wouldn't take a huge
amount of effort to bring this back, would it?

(the user below is using VARCHAR for his ip addresses for this reason.)

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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:37:22 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <200104201537.IAA26178@gulag.araneus.fi>
To: Paul A Vixie <vixie@mfnx.net>
Subject: Re: Appliance caching server configuration database schema 
In-Reply-To: <200104200314.UAA73417@redpaul.mfnx.net>
From: gson@nominum.com (Andreas Gustafsson)

Paul A. Vixie writes:
> you can use INET or CIDR for your addresses since this is postgres.

I would if it supported IPv6 addresses.

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