On 12/10/2016 09:32, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 12 October 2016 at 14:30, Haribabu Kommi <kommi.harib...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As we are moving to PostgreSQL 10, so are there any plans of backward >> compatiblity >> breakage, so the existing macaddr datatype itself can be changed to support >> both >> 48 and 64 bit MAC addresses. If not, I will try update the POC patch with >> more details >> similar like macaddr datatype. > > There's been some minor BC breaking, but breaking on-disk format for > pg_upgrade is a much bigger deal. I'm really not a fan of that idea. > > Just use macaddr64 if you want wide MACs. > >
+1 and you can instead make macaddr64 support both format, and provide a macaddr::macaddr64 cast -- Julien Rouhaud http://dalibo.com - http://dalibo.org -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
