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    You need only use a very large value to get a lease that it is
    virtually infinite. So long as the value is no more than max for
    32-bit signed integer you should be fine.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/6/19 2:49 PM, Thomas Markwalder
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      <tt>Please see section 4.3.6 of Kea Admin Guide:<br>
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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/6/19 12:56 PM, Sten Carlsen
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        This was just a quick check for obvious things, I have nor used
        database backends. I am trying to learn because I see obvious
        advantages in my setting.<br>
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            Best regards<br>
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            Sten Carlsen<br>
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            No improvements come from shouting:<br>
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                  "MALE BOVINE MANURE!!!"</span></div>
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          On 6 Jun 2019, at 18.24, Laurent Aubert (laaubert) <<a
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"
                  lang="EN-US">Thanks Sten for your reply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In our
                  understanding the tool kea-admin lease-init,
                  initialize the PostgresDB with the right schema
                  defined for Kea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The
                  way data is stored in PostgresDB is defined by Kea
                  schema, which is defined here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a
href="https://github.com/isc-projects/kea/blob/master/src/share/database/scripts/pgsql/dhcpdb_create.pgsql"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/isc-projects/kea/blob/master/src/share/database/scripts/pgsql/dhcpdb_create.pgsql</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Where
                  valid_lifetime is define as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">valid_lifetime
                  BIGINT,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">And 
                  according to PostgreSQL doc is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">bigint    
                  8 bytes  large-range integer         
                  -9223372036854775808 to +9223372036854775807<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">So is
                  there a problem with the schema for PostgreSQL ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Laurent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:
                    </span></b><span style="color:black">Kea-users <<a
                      href="mailto:kea-users-bounces@lists.isc.org"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">kea-users-bounces@lists.isc.org</a>>
                    on behalf of Sten Carlsen <<a
                      href="mailto:stenc@s-carlsen.dk"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">stenc@s-carlsen.dk</a>><br>
                    <b>Date: </b>Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 5:20 PM<br>
                    <b>To: </b>"<a
                      href="mailto:kea-users@lists.isc.org"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">kea-users@lists.isc.org</a>"
                    <<a href="mailto:kea-users@lists.isc.org"
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                    <b>Subject: </b>Re: [Kea-users] Infinite lease not
                    stored in postgresql DB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal">On 06/06/2019 13.02, Laurent Aubert
                  (laaubert) wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                    lang="EN-US">Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                    lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"
                    lang="EN-US">We deployed KEA 1.5 with a postgresql
                    DB without any issue. We have an application which
                    asks for IP addresses with an infinite lease.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"
                    lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"
                    lang="EN-US">When KEA receives the request, we see
                    the following error:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                    lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                      href="tel:2019" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="color:#00AFFA;text-decoration:none">2019</span></a>-06-06
                    09:05:02.566 ERROR [kea-dhcp4.alloc-engine/259]
                    ALLOC_ENGINE_V4_ALLOC_ERROR [hwtype=1
                    00:00:00:00:00:00],
cid=[ff:00:00:00:00:00:02:00:00:00:09:01:10:49:52:38:30:39:47:2d:4c:54:45:2d:47:41:2d:4b:39:02:0<br>
                    b:4a:4d:58:32:30:32:33:58:30:30:30], tid=0x8aed1f:
                    error during attempt to allocate an IPv4 address:
                    Could not create bind array from Lease4:<span
                      class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a
                      href="http://192.168.89.2" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="color:#00AFFA;text-decoration:none">192.168.89.2</span></a>,
                    reason: Time value is too large:<span
                      class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a
                      href="tel:5854779197" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="color:#00AFFA;text-decoration:none">5854779197</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">How is
                  your definition of the lease time field in the
                  database? this value requires 33 bits to be stored.<br>
                  <br>
                  <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Everything works
                    fine if we use csv file to store the leases instead
                    of postgres.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yes,
                  not limited by a fixed number of bits.<br>
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                  <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Any idea why
                    such leases can’t be stored in the DB ?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sten<br>
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                  <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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