Re: Slow join using network address function

> <http://word-to-the-wise.com/ipr.tgz> is a datatype that contains
> a range of IPv4 addresses, and which has the various operators to
> make it GIST indexable.

Great, this looks very promising.


>   No cast operators between ipr and inet types.

Any way to work around this, short of dumping and reloading tables?

SELECT ipr '1.2.3.4'; -- Okay
SELECT ipr text(inet '1.2.3.4'); -- Syntax error, of course
SELECT ipr(text(inet '1.2.3.4')); -- Function does not exist, of course
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