Alexander Farber <alexander.farber@gmail.com> writes:
> 1) if I'd like to compare just the first 3 numbers of
> the IP address instead of the 4, how can I do it?
regression=# select network(set_masklen('123.45.67.42'::inet, 24)) =
regression-# network(set_masklen('123.45.67.56'::inet, 24));
?column?
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t
(1 row)
regards, tom lane