A small type extension example for the contrib directory (fwd)

Hi...

I added this to the contrib directory for the server, but am
wondering if anyone feels that this just might be useful as a "normal"
datatype, instead of just in the contrib directory...

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org

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Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 21:24:40 +0100 (CET)
From: Tom I Helbekkmo <tih(at)Hamartun(dot)Priv(dot)NO>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Subject: A small type extension example for the contrib directory

Hi!

I figured the accompanying code might fit well in the contrib
directory. I don't know who to send it to, though, so I'm just
sending it to you. :-) From the README:

| PostgreSQL type extensions for IP and MAC addresses.
|
| I needed to record IP and MAC level ethernet addresses in a data
| base, and I really didn't want to store them as plain strings, with
| no enforced error checking, so I put together the accompanying code
| as my first experiment with adding a data type to PostgreSQL. I
| then thought that this might be useful to others, both directly and
| as a very simple example of how to do this sort of thing, so here
| it is, in the hope that it will be useful.

-tih
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