| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | darcy(at)druid(dot)net (D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain) |
| Cc: | taral(at)mail(dot)utexas(dot)edu, paul(at)vix(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: inet/cidr/bind |
| Date: | 1998-10-20 04:21:10 |
| Message-ID: | 199810200421.AAA29108@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Thus spake Bruce Momjian
> > If you define a fuction that can take inet or cidr type, I recommend you
> > define a typedef called something like "inet_or_cidr" that is the same
> > as inet, and use that in functions that can take either type.
>
> Perhaps. We can look at that 6.4++. For now there will be redundancy.
> Afterwards we'll look at how to fold them.
I hope you realize that that 6.4++ would have to be 6.5. We typically
don't to system table changes as part of minor releases, unless there is
a really good reason. It is hard to do for us and for the users.
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