Re: embedded sql interface to ip address type

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>
Cc: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Rob Fowler <postgres(at)mianos(dot)com>, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: embedded sql interface to ip address type
Date: 2003-03-22 12:16:10
Message-ID: 20030322121610.GB21850@feivel.fam-meskes.de
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-interfaces

On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 05:33:30AM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > What exactly do you mean? A C type for IP addresses? That doesn't
> > exist. Right now this type has to be stored in character strings.
>
> You mean base types written in C? We certainly do.

Yes, we have that in PGSQL, but not as a seperate C library. In C you
can only use char * so far. I'd like to have an implementation of CIDR
as C types as well.

Michael
--
Michael Meskes
Email: Michael(at)Fam-Meskes(dot)De
ICQ: 179140304
Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!

In response to

Browse pgsql-interfaces by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message William West 2003-03-22 21:40:39 Interaction between Cursor and Transaction storage?
Previous Message Michael Meskes 2003-03-22 12:14:39 Re: esql problem