Thread: [DOCS] Improve docuemntation for cidr/inet

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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

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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