| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Paul Vixie <paul(at)vix(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Vadim Kogan <vadim(at)xcf(dot)berkeley(dot)edu>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: IPv6 Support for INET/CIDR types. |
| Date: | 2002-02-22 19:59:34 |
| Message-ID: | 200202221959.g1MJxYW13518@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Paul Vixie wrote:
> > I don't believe the original patch ever made it into anything.
>
> vadim's original patch was the basis for BIND's ipv6 support in the
> set of functions that pgsql borrows from BIND. so, it did make it
> into _something_ just not the modified pgsql mirrors of these functions.
>
> my proposal is that we do away with the modified pgsql mirrors of these
> functions and teach the INET and CIDR handlers to "wrap" the BIND functions
> in a way that modifies the presentation format to be postgres-compatible.
> that way postgres can import new versions of, or use LIBC versions of,
> the BIND functions without having to worry about local modifications to them.
Are we sure the Bind library versions are going to be on all the OS's we
support?
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