On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Haribabu Kommi <kommi.harib...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
>> Haribabu Kommi <kommi.harib...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > Currently the casting is supported from macaddr to macaddr8, but not the
>> > other way. This is because, not all 8 byte MAC addresses can be
>> converted
>> > into 6 byte addresses.
>>
>> Well, yeah, so you'd throw an error if it can't be converted.  This is
>> no different from casting int8 to int4, for example.  We don't refuse
>> to provide that cast just because it will fail for some values.
>>
>
> Updated patch attached with added cast function from macaddr8 to
> macaddr.
>
> Currently there are no support for cross operators. Is this required
> to be this patch only or can be handled later if required?
>

Updated patch attached to address the duplicate OID problem.
There are no other functional changes to the previous patch.

Regards,
Hari Babu
Fujitsu Australia

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