Re: Data types for IP address.

From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer(at)nic(dot)fr>
To: Sim Zacks <sim(at)compulab(dot)co(dot)il>
Cc: PostgreSQL general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Data types for IP address.
Date: 2011-02-23 12:42:23
Message-ID: 20110223124223.GA5208@nic.fr
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:30:18PM +0200,
Sim Zacks <sim(at)compulab(dot)co(dot)il> wrote
a message of 97 lines which said:

> a regular varchar or text field.

Very bad idea since they don't support canonicalization (2001:db8::1
== 2001:db8:0:0:0:0:0:1) or masking (set_masklen(address, 20)).

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