| 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 20:02:35 |
| Message-ID: | 200202222002.g1MK2ZC13929@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Paul Vixie wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> no. that's why there should be a copy in the postgres sources, just in case.
> and that's why "./configure" has to learn how to choose whether to use the
> system supplied versions or the internal bootstrapping versions.
Oh, I get it. I am on the same planet now. :-)
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