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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: well, now i wish we hadn't gutted the ipv6 support
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Msg-id 21603.987910082@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to well, now i wish we hadn't gutted the ipv6 support  (Paul A Vixie <vixie@mfnx.net>)
Responses Re: well, now i wish we hadn't gutted the ipv6 support  (Paul A Vixie <vixie@mfnx.net>)
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Paul A Vixie <vixie@mfnx.net> writes:
> 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?

AFAIK we never actually *had* IPV6 support in those datatypes, only
stubs for it.  A patch to bring it up to full speed would be gladly
accepted...
        regards, tom lane

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