Re: Slow join using network address function - Mailing list pgsql-performance

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:07:10PM +0100, Eric Jain wrote:
> > <http://word-to-the-wise.com/ipr.tgz> is a datatype that contains
> > a range of IPv4 addresses, and which has the various operators to
> > make it GIST indexable.
>
> Great, this looks very promising.
>
> >   No cast operators between ipr and inet types.
>
> Any way to work around this, short of dumping and reloading tables?
>
> SELECT ipr '1.2.3.4'; -- Okay
> SELECT ipr text(inet '1.2.3.4'); -- Syntax error, of course
> SELECT ipr(text(inet '1.2.3.4')); -- Function does not exist, of course

There's probably some horrible SQL hack that would let you do it, but
I should add some casting code anyway. Shouldn't be too painful to do -
I'll try and get that, and some minimal documentation out today.

Cheers,
  Steve