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Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> writes:
> The problem here is that these ranges are controlled by a
> decentralized patchwork of national standards bodies, and the ranges
> are always subject to revision. I think that it's egregious that
> contrib/isn imagines it can track that with a static array.

Well, that module has already been rewritten once (which proves that
there's an audience out there for it).  Perhaps somebody will rewrite it
again to support a non-hardwired set of ranges.  Now that we have the
concept of an extension configuration table, that'd be one possible
way to fix it ...

			regards, tom lane


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