Re: IPv6 link-local addresses and init data type

From: Tom Dunstan <pgsql(at)tomd(dot)cc>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: IPv6 link-local addresses and init data type
Date: 2016-05-30 23:35:15
Message-ID: C8CF37AE-5933-4491-A082-0C703A8BDB7C@tomd.cc
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> On 31 May 2016, at 2:07 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> The impression I have is that scopes are not very well standardized ---
> eg, OS X reports things like "fe80::1%lo0" not just "%0". If we could
> get around that problem it would be worth doing.

Yeah, we’d have to just store it as a string I think. That’s why I was happy to see that inet was already a varlena but only with known-length content.

Cheers

Tom

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