On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> We can call it cidr. That is fine. I was just concerned that if we put
> it in contrib, that people who have never heard of cidr, like me, can
> recognize the usefulness of the type for their applications.
IMHO, those that will use it, will know what it is...AFAIK, CIDR
is a pretty generic/standard term, one that I've known for at least 6
years now, so it isn't really "new-style".
> Yes, I agree, this is a HOT type, and should be installed in the default
> system. Contrib is for testing/narrow audience, and this type certainly
> should be mainstream. This is the third generation of the type, with a
> wide audience. int8 is also coming into the main tree via Thomas.
Contrib for v6.4, mainstream by v6.5?
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org