Re: range types and ip4r

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: range types and ip4r
Date: 2011-07-20 03:17:54
Message-ID: 1311131874.31101.37.camel@jdavis
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 09:38 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Just wondering, will the planned range type functionality also be able
> to absorb the functionality of the ip4r type as a range of the ip4 type
> (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/ip4r)? Maybe it's trivial, but since the
> ip types also have a kind of hierarchical structure, I figured I'd point
> it out in case you hadn't considered it.

Thanks for bringing that up.

It had briefly crossed my mind, but I didn't see any problem with it.
Does it use the hierarchical nature to manipulate the values at all, or
is it just a flat range?

If it's just a flat range it would be similar to int4range, I would
think.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Joey Adams 2011-07-20 03:42:52 Fwd: Initial Review: JSON contrib modul was: Re: Another swing at JSON
Previous Message Alvaro Herrera 2011-07-20 02:01:09 Re: Initial Review: JSON contrib modul was: Re: Another swing at JSON