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-PostgreSQL type extensions for IP and MAC addresses.
----------------------------------------------------
-
-$Id: README.inet,v 1.1 1998/10/08 00:19:32 momjian Exp $
-
-I needed to record IP and MAC level ethernet addresses in a data
-base, and I really didn't want to store them as plain strings, with
-no enforced error checking, so I put together the accompanying code
-as my first experiment with adding a data type to PostgreSQL. I
-then thought that this might be useful to others, both directly and
-as a very simple example of how to do this sort of thing, so I
-submitted it to the PostgreSQL project for inclusion in the contrib
-directory. Since then, that directory has been modified to contain
-Aleksei Roudnev's implementation, which is based on mine.
-
-For those who have seen my previous contribution of these types, note
-that much has changed: I've modified the IP address type to work the
-way Paul Vixie did with his CIDR type. In fact, I've pretty much just
-stolen his solution, modifying it into my framework in such a way as
-to facilitate the addition of IPV6 handling code in the future. I've
-pretty much ignored Aleksei's C code, but I've added his SQL code to
-enter the necessary operators into the various system tables needed to
-make the types indexable.
-
-IP addresses are implemented as a struct of fixed in-memory length,
-but variable on-disk storage size. For IPV4, it contains the address
-family (AF_INET), the CIDR prefix length and four byte address. For
-IPV6, the address family will be different, and the address longer.
-
-The external representation of an IP address generally looks like
-'158.37.96.15/32'. This address happens to be part of a subnet where
-I work; '158.37.96.0/24', which itself is a part of the larger subnet
-allocated to our site, which is '158.37.96.0/21', which again, if you
-go by the old book, is part of the class "B" net '158.37.0.0/16'.
-
-Input and output functions are supplied, along with the "normal" <,
-<=, =, >=, > and <> operators, which all do what you expect. In
-addition, there are operators to check for networks or addresses being
-subnets of or addresses contained within other networks. << tests
-whether the left operand is contained within the right, <<= includes
-equality, >> and >>= do the same things the opposite way.
-
-The input and output functions use routines from Paul Vixie's BIND,
-and I've snarfed the source files inet_net_ntop.c and inet_net_pton.c
-directly from a recent distribution of that code. They are included
-here to avoid the need to fetch and install the BIND libraries to be
-able to use this code. IANAL, but it looks from the copyright
-messages in the files as if this should be acceptable. Read the
-documentation in inet_net_pton.c to see the legal input formats.
-
-MAC level ethernet addresses are implemented as a 6 byte struct that
-contains the address as unsigned chars. Several input forms are
-accepted; the following are all the same address: '08002b:010203',
-'08002b-010203', '0800.2b01.0203', '08-00-2b-01-02-03' and
-'08:00:2b:01:02:03'. Upper and lower case is accepted for the digits
-'a' through 'f'. Output is always in the latter of the given forms.
-
-As with IP addresses, input and output functions are supplied as well
-as the "normal" operators, which do what you expect. As an extra
-feature, a function macaddr_manuf() is defined, which returns the name
-of the manufacturer as a string. This is currently held in a
-hard-coded struct internal to the C module -- it might be smarter to
-put this information into an actual data base table, and look up the
-manufacturer there.
-
-Many thanks to Aleksei Roudnev and Paul Vixie for their fine work!
-
-I don't know what changes are needed to the Makefile for other systems
-than the one I'm running (NetBSD 1.3), but anyway: to install on a BSD
-system: fix the path names in the Makefile if you need to, then make,
-make install, slurp the SQL files into psql or whatever, and you're
-off. Enjoy!
-
-
<span class="marked">IP Version 4 Networks and Host Address</span>es
+
<span class="marked">Network Address Data Typ</span>es
- The cidr type stores networks specified
- in
CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) notation.
- The inet type stores hosts and networks in CIDR notation using a simple
- variation in representation to represent simple host TCP/IP addresses.
-
+
Postgres offers data types to store IP and MAC+ addresses. It is preferrable to use these types over plain text
+ types, because these types offer input error checking and several
+ specialized operators and functions.
-
<productname>Postgres</productname>IP Version 4 Types
- IPV4
+
Network Address Data Types
|
- IPV4 Type
+ Name
Storage
Description
Range
+
|
cidr
- variable
- CIDR networks
- Valid IPV4 CIDR blocks
+ 11 bytes
+ IP networks
+ valid IPv4 networks
+
|
inet
- variable
- nets and hosts
- Valid IPV4 CIDR blocks
+ 11 bytes
+ IP hosts and networks
+ valid IPv4 hosts
+
+ |
+ macaddr
+ 6 bytes
+ MAC addresses
+ customary formats
+
+
-
-
CIDR
+ IP v6 is not supported, yet.
+
+
+
+
+
<type>cidr</>
- The cidr type holds a CIDR network.
- The format for specifying classless networks is
- x.x.x.x/y
- where x.x.x.x is the
- network and /y is
- the number of bits in the netmask.
- If /y omitted, it is
- calculated using assumptions from
- the older classfull naming system except that it is extended to include at least
- all of the octets in the input.
+ The cidr type holds an IP network. The format for
+ specifying classless networks is
+ class="parameter">x.x.x.x/y where
+ class="parameter">x.x.x.x is the network and
+ class="parameter">y is the number of bits in the netmask. If
+ y omitted, it is calculated
+ using assumptions from the older classfull naming system except
+ that it is extended to include at least all of the octets in the
+ input.
Here are some examples:
-
<<span class="marked">productname>Postgres</productname>IP Types</span> Examples
+
<<span class="marked">type>cidr</> Type Input</span> Examples
+ |
+ 192.168.100.128/25
+ 192.168.100.128/25
+
+ |
+ 192.168/25
+ 192.168.0.0/25
+
|
192.168.1
192.168.1/24
-
- id="inet-type">inet
+ id="inet-type">
+
<type>inet</type>
- The inet type is designed to hold, in one field, all of the information
- about a host including the CIDR-style subnet that it is in.
- Note that if you want to store proper CIDR networks,
- you should use the cidr type.
- The inet type is similar to the cidr
- type except that the bits in the
- host part can be non-zero.
- Functions exist to extract the various elements of the field.
+ The inet type holds an IP host address, and
+ optionally the identity of the subnet it is in, all in one field.
+ Note that if you want to store networks only, you should use the
+ cidr type. The inet type is similar to
+ the cidr type except that the bits in the host part
+ can be non-zero. Functions exist to extract the various elements
+ of the field.
- The input format for this function is
- x.x.x.x/y
- where x.x.x.x is
- an internet host and y
- is the number of bits in the netmask.
- If the /y part is left off,
- it is treated as /32.
- On output, the /y part is not printed
- if it is /32.
- This allows the type to be used as a straight host type by just leaving off
- the bits part.
+ The input format for this type is
+ class="parameter">x.x.x.x/y where
+ class="parameter">x.x.x.x is an internet host and
+ y is the number of
+ bits in the netmask. If the
+ class="parameter">y part is left off, then the
+ netmask is 32 and you are effectively only storing the address of
+ a single host.
+
+
+
<type>macaddr</></></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+ The <type>macaddr</> type stores MAC addresses, i.e., Ethernet</div>
<div class="diff add">+ card hardware addresses (although MAC addresses are used for</div>
<div class="diff add">+ other purposes as well). Input is accepted in various customary</div>
<div class="diff add">+ formats, including <literal>'08002b:010203'</>,</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <literal>'08002b-010203'</>, <literal>'0800.2b01.0203'</>,</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <literal>'08-00-2b-01-02-03'</>, and</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <literal>'08:00:2b:01:02:03'</>, which would all specify the same</div>
<div class="diff add">+ address. Upper and lower case is accepted for the digits</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <literal>a</> through <literal>f</>. Output is always in the</div>
<div class="diff add">+ latter of the given forms.</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+ </sect2></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </chapter></div>
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<div class="diff rem">- If you want to write a double quote to output you must preceed</div>
<div class="diff rem">- it with a double backslash (<literal>'\\"</literal>), for</div>
<div class="diff rem">- example <literal>'\\"YYYY Month\\"'</literal>.</div>
<div class="diff add">+ A double quote (<quote><literal>"</literal></quote>) between</div>
<div class="diff add">+ quotation marks is skipped and is not parsed. If you want to</div>
<div class="diff add">+ write a double quote to output you must preceed it with a</div>
<div class="diff add">+ double backslash (<literal>'\\"</literal>), for example</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <literal>'\\"YYYY Month\\"'</literal>.</div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> <function>to_char</function> supports text without a leading</div>
<div class="diff rem">- double quote <span class="marked">('"'), </span>but any string </div>
<div class="diff add">+ double quote but any string </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> between a quotation marks is rapidly handled and you are</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> guaranteed that it will not be interpreted as a template</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> keyword (example: <literal>'"Hello Year: "YYYY'</literal>).</div>
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<div class="diff rem">- <sect1 id="<span class="marked">cidr</span>-functions"></div>
<div class="diff rem">- <title><span class="marked">IP V4</span> Functions
+ net-functions">
+
<span class="marked">Network Address Type</span> Functions
-
<<span class="marked">productname>Postgres</productname>IP V4</span> Functions
+
id="cidr-inet-functions">+
<<span class="marked">type>cidr</> and <type>inet</></span> Functions
|
|
masklen(cidr)
- int4
+ integer
calculate netmask length
masklen('192.168.1.5/24')
|
masklen(inet)
- int4
+ integer
calculate netmask length
masklen('192.168.1.5/24')
construct netmask as text
netmask('192.168.1.5/24')
+ |
+ trunc(macaddr)
+ macaddr
+ set last 3 bytes to zero
+ trunc(macaddr '12:34:56:78:90:ab')
+
+
+ The function trunc(macaddr) returns a MAC
+ address with the last 3 bytes set to 0. This can be used to
+ associate the remaining prefix with a manufacturer. The directory
+ contrib/mac in the source distribution contains some
+ utilities to create and maintain such an association table.
-
-
IP V4 CIDR Operators
-
<ProductName>Postgres</ProductName>IP V4 CIDR Operators
- Operators
+
+
Network Address Type Operators
+
+
+
<type>cidr</> Operators
+
+
<type>cidr</> Operators
|
-
-
+
- id="inet-operators">
-
<span class="marked">IP V4 INET</span> Operators
+ id="inet-operators">
+
<span class="marked"><type>inet</></span> Operators
-
<ProductName>Postgres</ProductName>IP V4 INET Operators
- Operators
+
<type>inet</> Operators
|
-
+
+
+
+
<type>macaddr</> Operators</></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+ The <type>macaddr</> type supports the standard relational</div>
<div class="diff add">+ operators (<literal>></>, <literal><=</>, etc.) for</div>
<div class="diff add">+ lexicographical ordering.</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+ </sect2></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </sect1></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </Chapter></div>
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