RE: INET/CIDR types

I was hoping to have some niceties out of the SQL retrieve to print directly
in PHP, and not have to massage it.

Why is there such animosity to printing out all 4 octets in some function
somewhere for a CIDR block?

Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Baccus [mailto:dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 2:30 PM
To: Larry Rosenman; pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org; Larry Rosenman
Subject: RE: [HACKERS] INET/CIDR types

At 02:26 PM 7/24/00 -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>The problem is NON-TECHNICAL people will be getting the output,
>and they expect 4 octet output.
>
>I really think that we should have a way to coerce a CIDR to
>an INET, and then allow host().
>
>Remember that I am dealing with $10/hour clerks.
>
>I really don't get the hostility to changing the OUTPUT format...

Are these $10/hour clerks typing in SQL to psql? Strange ...

If not, formatting issues like this can easily be broken (or fixed,
according to your POV) by your application client.

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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