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From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: PATCH: Disallow a netmask of zero unless the IP is also all zeroes
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In response to Re: PATCH: Disallow a netmask of zero unless the IP is also all zeroes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
More generally, should we reject if the netmask causes *any* nonzero
IP bits to be ignored?  Our CIDR type already imposes that rule:

Yeah, I like that idea a lot. That's a great DETAIL message.

Cheers,
Greg

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