| From: | Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> |
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| To: | Andre Lopes <lopes80andre(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | postgresql Forums <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, misiekbest(at)gmail(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: What datatype should I use to store an IP Address? |
| Date: | 2010-03-25 11:22:00 |
| Message-ID: | 1269516120.10204.3.camel@hp-laptop2.gunduz.org |
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On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 11:28 +0100, Michał Pawlikowski wrote:
> > I'm using Varchar(16) to store an IP Address. PostgreSQL offers
> > another datatypes to store IP's or it is OK to store in Varchar(16)?
> >
> Yes, just look here:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/datatype-net-types.html
Alternatively, you can use ip4r:
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/ip4r
"ip4 and ip4r are types that contain a single IPv4 address and a range
of IPv4 addresses respectively. They can be used as a more flexible,
indexable version of the cidr type."
Regards,
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