Re: [HACKERS] New IP address datatype - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] New IP address datatype
Date
Msg-id 199905311620.MAA21923@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to New IP address datatype  (Mark Volpe <mvolpe@eos.ncsu.edu>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] New IP address datatype
Re: [HACKERS] New IP address datatype
List pgsql-hackers
> I'm constructing a new type "ip4" as a unified replacement to inet and
> cidr,
> to hopefully relieve some of the confusion involving those types.
> Would anyone be interested?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 

But they are the same, except for output, right?  We discussed the
having a unified type, but could not figure out how to output things
properly.  I recommend you see the huge discussion on the hackers list
about these types in the October/November 1998 timeframe.

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