Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> when my cidr datatype was integrated into pgsql, the decision was made to
> incorporate a copy of bind's inet_net_pton.c rather than add a link-time
> dependence to libbind.a (libbind.so).
We didn't really want to assume that all platforms are using libbind :-(
> thus, when this bug was fixed in 2003:
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.14
> date: 2003/08/20 02:21:08; author: marka; state: Exp; lines: +10 -4
> 1580. [bug] inet_net_pton() didn't fully handle implicit
> multicast IPv4 network addresses.
> the pgsql "fork" of this code did not benefit from the fix. the patch was:
Ah-hah. Many thanks for supplying the patch --- will integrate it.
regards, tom lane
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