| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Dunstan <pgsql(at)tomd(dot)cc>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: IPv6 link-local addresses and init data type |
| Date: | 2016-06-04 03:43:13 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZeR0mDasP+EgKGj275OfMDAbj_ZFJ8nLapmiYUwNig+A@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> writes:
>> That leaves me wondering if it's really worth extending INET, though.
>> TEXT would be just fine to store a textual scope id. And it makes it
>> utterly clear that there's no magic involved.
>
> True, but it would force users to disassemble and reassemble the
> "address%scope" notation, which is kind of a pain.
Yeah, but what if somebody doesn't want to store scopes?
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