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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Allow format 0000-0000-0000 in postgresql MAC parser
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In response to Re: Allow format 0000-0000-0000 in postgresql MAC parser  (Ali Akbar <the.apaan@gmail.com>)
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On 10/17/14 6:37 PM, Ali Akbar wrote:
> On a side note, i'm noticing from
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address, that there is three numbering
> namespace for MAC: MAC-48, EUI-48 and EUI-64. The last one is 64 bits
> long (8 bytes). Currently PostgreSQL's macaddr is only 6 bytes long.
> Should we change it to 8 bytes (not in this patch, of course)?

It looks like nothing current is actually using EUI-64, so probably not,
unless someone comes with an actual use case.

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