Re: [HACKERS] CIDR output format

[Alex Pilosov]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Value                 Default output  text()          abbrev()
> 
> '127.0.0.1/32'::inet  127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1/32    127.0.0.1
> '127.0.0.1/32'::cidr  127.0.0.1/32    127.0.0.1/32    127.0.0.1/32
> '127/8'::cidr         127.0.0.0/8     127.0.0.0/8     127/8
> 
> This would be a little bit inconsistent, because the default output
> format would match text() for CIDR values but abbrev() for INET values.
> But that seems like the most useful behavior to me.  Possibly others
> will disagree ;-)
I think it makes sense.