Re: well, now i wish we hadn't gutted the ipv6 support

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Paul A Vixie <vixie(at)mfnx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: well, now i wish we hadn't gutted the ipv6 support
Date: 2001-04-22 03:28:02
Message-ID: 21603.987910082@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Paul A Vixie <vixie(at)mfnx(dot)net> writes:
> my original CIDR type implementation used BIND's inet_ntop() and inet_pton()
> which therefore included latent support for ipv6. it wouldn't take a huge
> amount of effort to bring this back, would it?

AFAIK we never actually *had* IPV6 support in those datatypes, only
stubs for it. A patch to bring it up to full speed would be gladly
accepted...

regards, tom lane

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