Re: status of IPv6 Support for INET/CIDR types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: status of IPv6 Support for INET/CIDR types
Date
Msg-id 200204021959.g32JxiM19037@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to status of IPv6 Support for INET/CIDR types  (Reinoud van Leeuwen <reinoud.v@n.leeuwen.net>)
List pgsql-hackers
Reinoud van Leeuwen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are implementing a database for maintaining our IP addresses. Looking 
> in the current documentation, it seems that INET/CIDR types only support 
> IPv4 addresses until now, although 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2001-09/msg00236.php
> seems to suggest a patch for IPv6 has been ready for some time now.
> 
> What is the status of IPv6 types at this moment?

Some merging of code from the BIND code and our IPv4 changes need to be
made.  No one has done it yet.

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