On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Guillaume <lomig42(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I find it a bit surprising that postgres does not know how to convert
> from varchar to inet implicitly (although the inet() operator does
> exist), but there is at least a solution.
I would say from Pg 8.3 and on, this is not a bug but an intentional behavior.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3.html#AEN87384
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Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.