--On Tuesday, May 13, 2003 16:21:39 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:
> Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
>>> Ugh. cidr doesn't appear to cast to text. You may be able to go
>>> through inet, but I'm not really sure because I haven't really used
>>> those types.
>
>> looks like I can, **BUT** is this the RIGHT thing? I suspect it SHOULD
>> cast to text. IMNSHO.
>
> Probably. We have an inet->text cast, and the same function would work
> for cidr->text. I think it's just an oversight that there's no such
> entry in pg_cast. You could add one by hand ...
How would I do that?
Also, this is what I wound up with for that line, which seems ugly, because
it couldn't find a quote_literal(inet) without the ::text on it:
quote_literal(NEW.netblock::inet::text) ;
Is that right?
>
> regards, tom lane
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