Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Not sure how serious this is since we have gotten few complaints about
it but clearly it should be fixed.
Personally I'm inclined to leave it for 8.1. The inet/cidr code is really designed around the assumption that these datatypes are interchangeable, and I suspect that enforcing a stronger distinction will actually take much more wide-ranging changes than just this. Do all of the functions on inet/cidr take care to deliver a value that is both correctly marked and declared as the correct type? I doubt it. It needs some thought not just a band-aid ...
Yeah.
I am not sure I understand the intention, but I should have thought there was a good case for clearing the bits past the mask on conversion from either text or inet, rather than rejecting or invalidly copying.
As you say, it needs some thought.
cheers
andrew
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