Re: IPv6 link-local addresses and init data type

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Yeah, but what if somebody doesn't want to store scopes?

[ shrug... ]  We can invent a "strip_scope()" sort of function,
analogous to the weight-stripping function for tsvectors, or several
other examples.  That's a really lame excuse for not being *able*
to store scopes.

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I have not looked at the spec, but I wouldn't be surprised if there
were an upper limit on the length of valid scope names.
        regards, tom lane