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Will IPV6 become a type in sql databases?

• landgenoot 6mo ago
  > The INET6 data type is intended for storage of IPv6 addresses, as well as IPv4 addresses assuming conventional mapping of IPv4 addresses into IPv6 addresses.
• throw0101d 6mo ago
  > Will IPV6 become a type in sql databases? Both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are 'just' u_ints: one is 2^32 and the other is 2^128. The fact that we display them in a particular format (10.11.12.13; ff:ee::bb:aa) is only for human UX purposes. Strictly speaking everything in a computer is 'just' a number represented in base-2 (binary digits: bits) that we affix certain labels to (char, int, float, struct).