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From Stephane Bortzmeyer
Subject Re: Data types for IP address.
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In response to Re: Data types for IP address.  (Sim Zacks <sim@compulab.co.il>)
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:30:18PM +0200,
 Sim Zacks <sim@compulab.co.il> wrote
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> a regular varchar or text field.

Very bad idea since they don't support canonicalization (2001:db8::1
== 2001:db8:0:0:0:0:0:1) or masking (set_masklen(address, 20)).

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