Re: ipv6

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Ola Sundell <ola(at)miranda(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ipv6
Date: 2002-06-07 23:48:32
Message-ID: 200206072348.g57NmWa07689@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Ola Sundell <ola(at)miranda(dot)org> writes:
> > Whatever happened to that patch that Paul Vixie sent in, that was supposed
> > to be applied? Why is it still in the TODO list?
>
> Because Paul hasn't fixed the outstanding problems with it: as
> submitted, it reverted the painfully-agreed-to formatting behavior
> for the inet datatypes.
>
> This could easily be dealt with (IMHO) by re-patching as we'd done
> for 7.1. But Paul had an additional agenda item: he wanted to see
> our code restructured as a pure wrapper around the published libbind
> subroutines. I have no problem with that --- as long as someone
> else does the legwork. So far, neither Paul nor anyone else has.

Yes, it is still in my review mailbox. Not sure how to handle it.

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