Re: Best way to index IP data? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Michael Stone
Subject Re: Best way to index IP data?
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Msg-id 20080112001135.GY5294@mathom.us
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In response to Re: Best way to index IP data?  (Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>)
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:00:55PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>another way, without context, a dotted-quad is insufficient on its own.
>What you're really arguing is that the context ought to be storable
>somewhere else (maybe in a human's brain)

Or, say, in a database schema, where you say "this column contains host
IPs"? Are you suggesting that the IP associated with the host can
somehow be ambiguous? IMO, the only ambiguity is that the type is
defined as "network or host".

Mike Stone

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