Re: [HACKERS] A small problem with the new inet and cidr types

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > It seems that we have a small problem with the operators and functions
> > in the inet and cidr types. If the value in a field is null then the
> > backend crashes when you try to apply one of the operators or functions
> > on it. I have a small patch ready to fix the functions but I'm not
> > sure what the behaviour should be for the operators. For the functions
> > I return an empty string if the argument is null except for masklen()
> > which returns 0. Should masklen return 32?
> >
> > At Marc's request I am holding my patch until 6.4 is frozen.
>
> Huh. You have a backend crash fix, and we can't apply it until after
> 6.4 is out the door?

D'Arcy is going to release a patch for the fix on the same day as
the release, as it is something that only affects a very small aspect of
the server, and will affect very few ppl...

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org