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Asked: 2026-05-15T09:33:00+00:00

I want to save a user’s IP address to my database just in case

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I want to save a user’s IP address to my database just in case any legal issues come up and we need to track down who performed what action. Since I highly doubt I will ever actually need to use this data (well, maybe for counting unique hits or something) do you think I can just dump the REMOTE_ADDR into a field? If so, what should the length of that field be? 39 chars should fit an IPv6 address, no? I don’t know if I’ll ever get any of those, but just in case…

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you happen to be using Postgres, there are specific data types for network addresses.

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