Re: INET operators and NOT - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

I still see this problem in 7.0.

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> Your name               :       Tomas Cerha
> Your email address      :       t.cerha@sh.cvut.cz
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> System Configuration
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>   Architecture (example: Intel Pentium)         : Intel Pentium MMX
>   Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF)  : Linux 2.2.5-15 ELF
>   PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5.3): PostgreSQL-6.5.3
>   Compiler used (example:  gcc 2.8.0)           : installed from RPMs
>     installed packages:
>         postgresql-6.5.3-1.i386.rpm
>         postgresql-perl-6.5.3-1.i386.rpm
>         postgresql-server-6.5.3-1.i386.rpm
>         postgresql-tcl-6.5.3-1.i386.rpm
>         postgresql-test-6.5.3-1.rpm
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> I've already posted this bug, but nobody replied yet ... I was not
> subscribed, but now I am. If it is not significant, I'm sorry to
> overload this
> mailing list... Now to the problem:
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> Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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>
> Aplying the NOT operator with << INET operator results always in false.
> See the example below:
>
> This is the contents of table a:
>
> accounting=> SELECT * FROM a;
>       ip
> --------
> 10.1.1.1
> 10.1.1.2
> 10.2.1.2
> 10.2.1.1
> (4 rows)
>
> Now, let's select only those hosts from subnet '10.1/16': (works fine)
>
> accounting=> SELECT * FROM a WHERE ip<<'10.1/16';
>       ip
> --------
> 10.1.1.1
> 10.1.1.2
> (2 rows)
>
> And now, I only apply NOT to prewious statement ....
>
> accounting=> SELECT * FROM a WHERE NOT ip<<'10.1/16';
> ip
> --
> (0 rows)
>
>
> But that is not true! I tryed this also with other versions of postgress
> on other machines and the result was always the same. But this makes all
> about INET operators quite unusable, when I am not able to exclude some
> address space (I can only include them). Or is there another way to do
> It?
>
>
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> Please describe a way to repeat the problem.   Please try to provide a
> concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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>
> CREATE TABLE a (ip inet);
>
> INSERT INTO a VALUES ('10.1.1.1');
> INSERT INTO a VALUES ('10.1.1.2');
> INSERT INTO a VALUES ('10.2.1.2');
> INSERT INTO a VALUES ('10.2.1.1');
>
> SELECT * FROM a;
> SELECT * FROM a WHERE ip<<'10.1/16';
> SELECT * FROM a WHERE NOT ip<<'10.1/16';
>
> DROP TABLE a;
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> Thank you for any idea which could help to solve this problem ...
>
> Tom Cerha, student, FEE CTU Prague Czech Republic
>
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