Re: BUG #14362: Postgres macaddr does not support EUI-64 8-byte MAC addresses

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: tilo(dot)sloboda(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #14362: Postgres macaddr does not support EUI-64 8-byte MAC addresses
Date: 2016-10-10 17:00:20
Message-ID: 5336.1476118820@sss.pgh.pa.us
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tilo(dot)sloboda(at)gmail(dot)com writes:
> What is the plan for Postgres to support EUI-64 MACs?

I know of nobody working on that. Feel free to submit a patch.
(I'm afraid it might be nontrivial to get the current datatype
to do anything about this, though, since it's hard-wired as 6 bytes
on-disk.)

regards, tom lane

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