Re: [HACKERS] Re: inet/cidr/bind

> > > There is an argument for another, completely separate type, called MACADDR,
> > > which is an IEEE 48-bit address (suitable for ethernet or fddi arp tables).
> >
> > Nothing to do with our current discussion, right? You are just mentioning
> > it for completeness and we shall never speak of it again, or at least not
> > till after 6.4?
>
> I'd thought that the fellow who wrote ip_and_mac had already submitted the
> MACADDR type. If not, then clearly it is way too late to consider it for 6.4.
>

>From psql's \dT command:

macaddr |MAC address
inet |IP address

> > > ... -- has anybody got a specific application they want to build which
> > > requires a CIDR-like host address which is of fixed size, has the ability
> > > to preserve the "unset"-ness of the prefix length from input through
> > > storage to output, and also has the ability to preserve a particular prefix
> > > length from input through storage to output?
> >
> > Radius server for Ascend terminal servers.
>
> Is there no way to accomplish this without efficiency loss using a pair of
> IHOSTs, one for the host address and one for the netmask?
>
> I note that polymorphism of the supernet/subnet tests between (a) and (b) as
> denoted in the top of the text I've quoted in this message is a lot more work
> than the inherent polymorphism of supernet/subnet tests between an INET and
> an IHOST as I've proposed them here.

I can't comment on the rest of this, because I don't understand it.

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