Re: macaddr 64 bit (EUI-64) datatype support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: macaddr 64 bit (EUI-64) datatype support
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Msg-id a2e6482f-58dc-c6ea-d075-42ed97e529a2@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: macaddr 64 bit (EUI-64) datatype support  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 10/12/16 4:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> The larger picture here is that we got very little thanks when we squeezed
> IPv6 into the pre-existing inet datatype; there's a large number of people
> who just said "no thanks" and started using the add-on ip4r type instead.

I don't think that is a correct account.  People used the ip4r extension
because it was faster, had more functionality, and didn't have those
stupid network masks to worry about.  ip4r does in fact also provide a
type that can contain ip4 and ip6, which one ought to use nowadays.

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