Re: Contains and is contained by operators of inet datatypes

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> wrote:
>> I like the patch because it means less operators to remember for me as a
>> PostgreSQL user. And at least for me inet is a rarely used type compared to
>> hstore, json and range types which all use @> and <@.

> I agree that it would be nice to make the choice of operator names
> more consistent.  I don't know if doing so will please more or fewer
> people than it annoys.

Given the lack of support for this idea from the rest of the community,
I think it's time to reject this patch and move on.  The inconsistency
is unfortunate but it does not seem worth the costs of changing.
        regards, tom lane