Re: netmask(inet) function broken in 7.4

This will be fixed in 7.4.1.

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Joe Sunday wrote:
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> After upgrading to 7.4 from 7.3.4, the behaviour of the netmask(inet) function changed,
> but the documentation still specifies the old behaviour (which seems more correct than the
> new version)
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> Old:
> netmask( '192.168.1.0/23' ) returns '255.255.254.0'
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> New:
> netmask( '192.168.1.0/23' ) returns '255.255.254.0/23'
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> Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a
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> Perform a SELECT using the netmask function with the example above.
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> If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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> Revert netmask to the prior behaviour, or update the documentation to match the new
> behaviour. Masklen(inet) already returns just the mask length for CIDR-style addressing,
> netmask(inet) should just return a mask without the redundant length.
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> Joe Sunday <sunday(at)csh(dot)rit(dot)edu> http://www.csh.rit.edu/~sunday/
> Computer Science House, Rochester Inst. Of Technology
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