Re: [HACKERS] A small type extension example for the contrib directory (fwd)

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> I figured the accompanying code might fit well in the contrib
> directory. I don't know who to send it to, though, so I'm just
> sending it to you. :-) From the README:

/contrib looks like a good place. We need to re-emphasise contrib,
rather than putting this in the backend.

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> | PostgreSQL type extensions for IP and MAC addresses.
> |
> | I needed to record IP and MAC level ethernet addresses in a data
> | base, and I really didn't want to store them as plain strings, with
> | no enforced error checking, so I put together the accompanying code
> | as my first experiment with adding a data type to PostgreSQL. I
> | then thought that this might be useful to others, both directly and
> | as a very simple example of how to do this sort of thing, so here
> | it is, in the hope that it will be useful.
>
> -tih
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