> Sheesh, arbitrary restrictions ;-) Something like this then:
>
> CREATE FUNCTION inet2num(inet) RETURNS numeric AS $$
> DECLARE
> a text[] := string_to_array(host($1), '.');
> BEGIN
> RETURN a[1]::numeric * 16777216 +
> a[2]::numeric * 65536 +
> a[3]::numeric * 256 +
> a[4]::numeric;
> END;
> $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql IMMUTABLE STRICT;
Cool, and now the reverse? :D
(I'll credit you in the MySQL Compat Library code btw) If you're
interested, you'd be welcome to join the project btw...
Chris