Re: [DOCS] Improve docuemntation for cidr/inet - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [DOCS] Improve docuemntation for cidr/inet
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Msg-id e7ba3a46-a26b-dd78-dc92-5381cf72c072@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to [DOCS] Improve docuemntation for cidr/inet  (kes-kes@yandex.ru)
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On 4/22/17 04:19, kes-kes@yandex.ru wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/datatype-net-types.html
> Description:
>
> >The essential difference between inet and cidr data types is that inet
> accepts values with nonzero bits to the right of the netmask, whereas cidr
> does not.
>
> May you please provide example to see the difference visually. I do not
> understand that sentence completely

I have added an example to the version 10 documentation.

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