Re: GiST support for inet datatypes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: GiST support for inet datatypes
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Msg-id 26488.1396987368@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: GiST support for inet datatypes  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> NICE.  I'd like to tell you how excited I am about this part:

> # It also handles a new network
> # operator inet && inet (overlaps, a/k/a "is supernet or subnet of"),
> # which is expected to be useful in exclusion constraints.

> ...but I can't, because my mouth is too full of drool.  Wouldn't you
> really want that more for cidr than for inet, though?

Probably, but it works with either since they're binary-compatible.
        regards, tom lane



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