Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> A separate function for formatting output seems necessary, but if we don't
> reach an agreement though, it ought to work to cast CIDR to INET to get
> all four octets, no?
Uh, weren't you one of the people objecting to relying on cidr-to-inet
casts to control formatting?
> I think the typecast-to-text representation of CIDR should be visually the
> same as the normal representation.
Well, we need *some* way to extract a representation like "w.x.y.z/n".
If you don't like text() as the name of that formatting function,
suggest another name...
regards, tom lane