Hey Roger,
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Baklund" Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 7:09 PM Subject: Re: A fun one > You shouldn't use text columns for ip/name... ip addresses fits in an > unsigned int Yeah, I want to use an INT UNSIGNED column for IPs, which is great for the space savings... except people have brought up the issue of IPv6 addresses (128-bit; 32 hex chars IIRC). I've never personally seen an IPv6 address yet, but I guess I will in the future. And I'm concerned about an INT not handling them. :-( Of course, the people that mention IPv6 are using VARCHAR(15) columns, which won't hold the addresses either. :-D So what do you think about the situation? If we want to stick with INT-based columns and handle IPv6, I guess we could use 2 BIGINT columns. :-/ I just don't know when we're going to *need to* handle IPv6... Matt -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
