Re: BUG #14362: Postgres macaddr does not support EUI-64 8-byte MAC addresses

thanks for the quick answer.

I'm not a contributor of the Postgres code base.

The EUI-64 has been around for a while now, and real-world data contains
such MAC addresses.

How useful is the current macaddr data type if it breaks with real world
input data - and in turn end-users apps?

It would be great it either the macaddr type would be extended, or an
additional type could be introduced which can handle both 48 and 64-bit
MACs.

best regards,  Tilo


On 10/10/16 10:00 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> tilo.sloboda@gmail.com writes:
>> What is the plan for Postgres to support EUI-64 MACs?
>
> I know of nobody working on that.  Feel free to submit a patch.
> (I'm afraid it might be nontrivial to get the current datatype
> to do anything about this, though, since it's hard-wired as 6 bytes
> on-disk.)
>
>             regards, tom lane
>