PL/SQL or PL/PGSQL...
Chris
Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:31:59PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>
>>OK, I give up - how do I convert an INET type to a NUMERIC
>>representation of its network address?
>
>
> How about:
>
> CREATE FUNCTION inet2num(inet) RETURNS numeric AS $$
> use Socket;
> return unpack("N", inet_aton($_[0]));
> $$ LANGUAGE plperlu IMMUTABLE STRICT;
>
> SELECT inet2num('127.0.0.1');
> inet2num
> ------------
> 2130706433
> (1 row)
>
