Re: Arithmetic operators for macaddr type

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 12 December 2011 15:59, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> 2011/12/12 Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>>> I just bumped into a situation where I wanted to do a little macaddr
>>> arithmetic in postgres.  I note that the inet type has support for
>>> bitwise AND, OR and NOT, as well as subtraction, but macaddr has none
>>> of the above.
>>
>> +1
>>
>
> Here is a patch for $SUBJECT.  I merely added support for ~, & and |
> operators for the macaddr type.  The patch itself is rather trivial,
> and includes regression tests and a doc update.

The patch looks fine except that it uses the OIDs already used in pg_proc.h.
Attached is the updated version of the patch, which fixes the above problem.

> For the documentation, I did think about adding a new table for the
> macaddr operators, but in the end decided it would probably be an
> overkill.

Agreed.

Regards,

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