bert hubert wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:33:54PM +0000, Julian Mehnle wrote: > > Let me guess, you are using MySQL? > > This is the PowerDNS mailing list, not the 'flame MySQL to death' list.
I apologize if my statements came over as "MySQL death flames", but for the record I'd like to point out again my original statement and what Mark read into it: Mark Martin wrote: | Julian Mehnle wrote: | | Let me guess, you are using MySQL? | | | | In reality there are RDBMSes that _do_ support an IP address datatyle | | natively and that sort that datatype correctly, such as PostgreSQL. | | There's really no point in adding redundant data to the tables just to | | accommodate ignorant database systems. | | | | If your RDBMS supports views, you can store IP addresses in integer | | format and generate the data required by PowerDNS on the fly from that. | | Or you could make custom SQL queries in PDNS to do the same. | | So I guess it would be safe to say, that all databases that are not like | postgres should be destroyed? Or not used? [...] I really don't see how Mark got so offended by my initial reply. It hardly even qualifies as a MySQL flame... The points of my second reply to Mark were to further refute the idea that PDNS should make up for MySQL's lack of a compact and sortable IP address datatype by using the "int" type, and that "it was a business decision" never is a good argument. Again, I apologize for wording it as offensive as I did. > And please don't flame, I really hate it when this happens. We have fine > support for all databases and we don't want to bother people too much in > their choices. I never challenged that -- only the idea that the PDNS default DB schema should be adjusted to make up for MySQL's said deficiency.
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