Re: Adding ip4r to Postgresql core? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Adding ip4r to Postgresql core?
Date
Msg-id 4364.1375934802@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Adding ip4r to Postgresql core?  (Joe Van Dyk <joe@tanga.com>)
Responses Re: Adding ip4r to Postgresql core?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Joe Van Dyk <joe@tanga.com> writes:
> Any chance ip4r could be an official postgresql extension?

That's been proposed before, and rejected before, on the grounds that
since it doesn't support IPv6 its days are numbered.  That consideration
isn't getting any weaker as time passes.  If we accepted ip4r, then how
to someday make it support IPv6 would become the core project's problem;
and we have enough problems already.

            regards, tom lane


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