Re: BUG #19671: IPv4 CIDR Prefix Integer Overflow Bypasses Validation in inet/cidr Casts - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Daniel Gustafsson
Subject Re: BUG #19671: IPv4 CIDR Prefix Integer Overflow Bypasses Validation in inet/cidr Casts
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Msg-id 2F2A3B78-F47B-400C-A1E1-886E25968375@yesql.se
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In response to Re: BUG #19671: IPv4 CIDR Prefix Integer Overflow Bypasses Validation in inet/cidr Casts  (Andrey Rachitskiy <pl0h0yp1@gmail.com>)
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> On 10 Sep 2026, at 18:58, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> In a post-scarcity world, I might be interested in fixing edge-case
> problems like this (and the adjacent bug reports), but as things are
> it's a waste of extremely limited developer time.

+1.  The main reason to fix these types of issues is to avoid getting umpteen
duplicate reports of this over the coming weeks/months/year, and that really
doesn't seem to fit the bill of improving Postgres for actual users with real
world usecases.

--
Daniel Gustafsson




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