Tom Lane wrote:
> A purely stylistic suggestion: IDs of the form "1.2.3.4" might be
> mistaken for IP addresses, which of course they ain't. It might save
> confusion down the road to use a different delimiter. Not slash either
> unless you want the things to look like filenames ... maybe comma or
> colon?
>
> regards, tom lane
But the 'dot' notation also looks like an entry in an SNMP MIB.
I've been thinking about a similar structure for psql storage
of a MIB.
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