Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> I wonder if this would be an opportunity to fix Postgres's handling of
> addresses like '10.1'.
You've mistaken this for a proposal to change the I/O behavior, which
it is specifically not.
> The standard interpretation of this is the same as '10.0.0.1'.
Standard according to whom? Paul Vixie evidently doesn't think that
that's a standard abbreviation, else the code we borrowed from libbind
would do it already.
regards, tom lane