From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199810030550.BAA09318@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 Items
In-Reply-To: <86lnn3v5gw.fsf@athene.nhh.no> from Tom Ivar Helbekkmo at "Sep
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	1998  7:43:43 am"
To: tih@nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 01:50:24 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org (PostgreSQL-development)
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> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> 
> > Possible additions
> > ------------------
> > cidr/IP address type(Tom Helbekkmo)
> 
> It looks like the code I sent you is working fine -- if you want to
> integrate it into the backend, I'd say go ahead.  Also, if you at the
> same time could make notes explaining how this is done, that would
> make it possible for the rest of us to do such things ourselves...

It is very hard to do this.  If you look at how I integrated this type,
you can see what is involved.  There are things pointing everywhere, so
it is really hard to describe without understanding all the tables and
their interaction.


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