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@@ -3904,13 +3904,13 @@ SELECT person.name, holidays.num_weeks FROM person, holidays
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- IEEE Std 802-2001 specifies the second shown form (with hyphens)
+ IEEE Standard 802-2001 specifies the second form shown (with hyphens)
as the canonical form for MAC addresses, and specifies the first
- form (with colons) as the bit-reversed notation, so that
- 08-00-2b-01-02-03 = 01:00:4D:08:04:0C. This convention is widely
+ form (with colons) as used with bit-reversed, MSB-first notation, so that
+ 08-00-2b-01-02-03 = 10:00:D4:80:40:C0. This convention is widely
ignored nowadays, and it is relevant only for obsolete network
protocols (such as Token Ring). PostgreSQL makes no provisions
- for bit reversal, and all accepted formats use the canonical LSB
+ for bit reversal; all accepted formats use the canonical LSB
order.
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