Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb@cybertec.at> writes:
> we at Cybertec have developed cast functions in C between
> inet/cidr <-> bytea for a client and we would like to submit it.
Why is this a good idea? Exposing the internal representation of a
datatype is usually bad. What will you do when we add support for
scoped IPv6 addressing, to take one obvious example?
regards, tom lane
