On 06/03/2016 06:55 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > More importantly, > on what basis do you conclude that the inet type will only be asked to > store link-local addresses that are currently valid on the local machine? > It is not very hard to think of applications where that wouldn't be the > case.
That's a good point. > I think a better plan is just to store the zone string verbatim. It is > not our job to check its validity or try to determine which spellings > are equivalent. Agreed. That leaves me wondering if it's really worth extending INET, though. TEXT would be just fine to store a textual scope id. And it makes it utterly clear that there's no magic involved. Kind Regards Markus Wanner -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
