2011/12/12 Brendan Jurd <dire...@gmail.com>: > Hello folks, > > I just bumped into a situation where I wanted to do a little macaddr > arithmetic in postgres. I note that the inet type has support for > bitwise AND, OR and NOT, as well as subtraction, but macaddr has none > of the above. > > These operations are easy to perform in C, but relatively a pain to do > in SQL, especially as there doesn't seem to be a direct way to get a > macaddr into a plain numeric form. > > I can't see any reason why postgres shouldn't support these operations > on macaddr. I'd like to add them as fully realised operators in core. > Would that be acceptable?
+1 Pavel > > Cheers, > BJ > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
