| From: | Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alex Pilosov <alex(at)pilosoft(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Summary: what to do about INET/CIDR |
| Date: | 2000-10-27 22:37:32 |
| Message-ID: | 20001027173732.A27362@lerami.lerctr.org |
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* Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> [001027 17:29]:
> Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> writes:
> > I.E. for select network('207.158.72.0/24')
> > I get
> > 207.158.72.0
>
> To my mind that should be done with host(), not network(). If you strip
> the masklen information then what you have is no longer a network
> specification, so expecting a function named network() to behave that
> way strikes me as bizarre.
Fine, but host() rejects CIDR types right now....
LER
>
> regards, tom lane
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