Re: IPv6 Support for INET/CIDR types.

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Vadim Kogan <vadim(at)xcf(dot)berkeley(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, Paul A Vixie <vixie(at)mfnx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: IPv6 Support for INET/CIDR types.
Date: 2001-09-06 20:45:25
Message-ID: 200109062045.f86KjPV21792@candle.pha.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-patches


Can I have a version of this that can be applied? 7.2 beta will start
on Monday.

-- Start of PGP signed section.
> Attached is a patch that adds IPv6 support for inet and cidr datatypes. All
> the functionality that was available for IPv4 is available for IPv6. In
> addition comparison between IPv4 and IPv4-in-IPv6 addresses is available.
>
> **** WARNING: THIS PATCH HAS NOT BEEN TESTED ENOUGH! ****
> (There is still some minor debug stuff left and such)
> The patch is not likely to kill any of your data, but it could crash your
> backend.
>
> Due to me being relatively busy lately, I was hoping that other people might
> want to help me test the patch. If you have a problem, just email me what
> you were doing and I will try to reproduce and fix it. Hopefully we can get
> this small patch to the point of being stable soon enough and have it
> included in the main tree.
>
> Paul: I suppose you can take a look at inet_{net,cidr}_{pton,ntop} stuff,
> test it and eventually include with your code. Sorry for the delay, I had
> this part more or less ready a while back, but never had time to finish the
> postgres-specific part...
>
> Vadim.
>
-- End of PGP section.

--
Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us
pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us | (610) 853-3000
+ If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue
+ Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026

In response to

Browse pgsql-patches by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Paul A Vixie 2001-09-06 21:10:37 Re: IPv6 Support for INET/CIDR types.
Previous Message Joseph Shraibman 2001-09-06 20:44:22 Re: Patch for jdbc2 ResultSet.java