Re: IPv6 link-local addresses and init data type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: IPv6 link-local addresses and init data type
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Msg-id 9009.1464660370@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: IPv6 link-local addresses and init data type  (Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>)
Responses Re: IPv6 link-local addresses and init data type  (Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>)
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Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> writes:
> On 05/31/2016 02:37 AM, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
>> The % delimiter character is not only used at the end of the IPV6 address,
>> from the RFC document, it is possible as follows also.
>> 
>> fe80::%2/64
>> 
>> we need to handle both the scenarios,  it may not be a straight
>> forward to store the zone id data.

> This case needs to be handled by the parser for at least the cidr type, 
> but I do not think it would make parsing any trickier.

Unless there's a semantic difference between fe80::1%2/64 and
fe80::1/64%2, this doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
        regards, tom lane



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