| From: | "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: mac.c |
| Date: | 2000-07-28 18:39:27 |
| Message-ID: | v04210125b5a783232fd7@[137.78.84.130] |
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At 11:54 PM -0400 7/26/00, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > All I want to do now (given the size stuff), is to have a function and
> > possibly a type to compare the 24-bit OUI's, and give the tools
> > in /contrib to load a table using these from the IEEE's list.
> >
> > No more hardcoded stuff in the db.
> >
> > Does this make more sense?
> >
> > It's definately extensible, and frees code space.
>
>I was just wondering if there was any real demand for this feature.
Seems to me that code to deal with 24/48 bit integers is core, and
everything else is contrib. The actual list of manufacturers is not
even Postgres, but IEEE and should have a URL or cross reference in
contrib.
Just my opinion.
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