Re: IPv6 Support for INET/CIDR types.

Paul Vixie wrote:
> > I don't believe the original patch ever made it into anything.
>
> vadim's original patch was the basis for BIND's ipv6 support in the
> set of functions that pgsql borrows from BIND.  so, it did make it
> into _something_ just not the modified pgsql mirrors of these functions.
>
> my proposal is that we do away with the modified pgsql mirrors of these
> functions and teach the INET and CIDR handlers to "wrap" the BIND functions
> in a way that modifies the presentation format to be postgres-compatible.
> that way postgres can import new versions of, or use LIBC versions of,
> the BIND functions without having to worry about local modifications to them.

Are we sure the Bind library versions are going to be on all the OS's we
support?

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