On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:30:58PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Patch for testing attached.
> This is an utterly bad idea, because it not only doesn't address the
> problem (ie, confusion about whether inet and cidr are distinct types
> or not), but it masks mistakes in that realm by hiding data on output.
> It'll be almost impossible to debug situations where x is different
> from y but they display the same.
FWIW, I append the patch I've done a few weeks ago. It adds an inettocidr
cast function.
I updated it to comply to Bruce's recent "ip_type" -> "ip_is_cidr" change.
Joachim
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