Re: ipv6 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: ipv6
Date
Msg-id 200206072348.g57NmWa07689@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: ipv6  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Ola Sundell <ola@miranda.org> writes:
> > Whatever happened to that patch that Paul Vixie sent in, that was supposed
> > to be applied? Why is it still in the TODO list?
> 
> Because Paul hasn't fixed the outstanding problems with it: as
> submitted, it reverted the painfully-agreed-to formatting behavior
> for the inet datatypes.
> 
> This could easily be dealt with (IMHO) by re-patching as we'd done
> for 7.1.  But Paul had an additional agenda item: he wanted to see
> our code restructured as a pure wrapper around the published libbind
> subroutines.  I have no problem with that --- as long as someone
> else does the legwork.  So far, neither Paul nor anyone else has.

Yes, it is still in my review mailbox.  Not sure how to handle it.

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