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[eclipselink-users] Handling db specific datatypes, specifically PgSQL CIDR
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PostgreSQL (and soon MySQL) provides custom data types dealing with IP
networking.
They effectively hide the implementation details of storage used to
hold integral representations of CIDR and INET addresses. Doing this
allows the DB to use whatever internal representation it needs for ~24
bytes on a particular platform. So, in short, there is a valid reason
to use them. ;)
In any case, is there a "recommended" way for integrating eclipselink
and DB specific types?
Eg., I have an annotated class that I would like to include CIDR
fields in. The CIDR input to pgsql is a string and the db provides
several utility functions of some interest. My main concern is simply
being able to CIDR with eclipselink persistent entities.
Here is some info if needed...
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/datatype-net-types.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-net.html
Thoughts?
David