On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 02:33:05PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > making userids be [EMAIL PROTECTED] not just a username). This is probably > why > they still haven't got IPv6 support: > http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=8836 > I wonder what their plans are for fixing that ...
Panic at the last second, like everyone else? It's actually remarkable how many systems still have poor or dodgy IPv6 support. And the management tools for IPv6 remain sort of awful, given the immense address space that people are going to have to deal with (there's 128 bits in an IPv6 address). But I guess MySQL AB will have to figure out something soon, since even ARIN is on the IPv6 wagon now: http://www.arin.net/announcements/20070521.html (In the American-continents Internet operations world, this has caused quite a kerfuffle, because many people have mostly ignored IPv6 for some time. And there are a lot of grotty corners to IPv6 for which there are no analogies in IPv4. Uh, scoped addresses, anyone ;-) A -- Andrew Sullivan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information security isn't a technological problem. It's an economics problem. --Bruce Schneier ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
