Re: [HACKERS] A small type extension example for the contrib directory (fwd)

On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Peter T Mount wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> >     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...
>
> Personally, I would, as at work, I have a database that contains all of
> our machines on the network. It's a real pain handling IP & MAC addresses
> as strings.
>
> The IP type would be more useful, as I'd thought that people would use it
> in things like web useage logs, etc.
>
> > | 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.
>

Hmm...

    It would be nice to see PgSQL integrated into Scotty/Tkined :)


-James