2007/11/19, Tom Allison <tom@tacocat.net>:
> I am planning on doing a LOT of work with ip addresses and thought that the
> inet data type would be a great place to start.
>
> But I'm not sure how this works in with accessing the addresses. In perl or
> ruby how is the value returned?
In Perl the value is returned as a scalar.
> Or should I stricly use host() and other functions to be explicit about what
> I'm doing.
>
>
> Another question.
> Given a subnet (eg: 192.168.1.0/24) is there some way to pull all the
> addresses therein?
> I can do this in code - but I was curious if there was a postgres way of
> doing it (didn't see any, but..)
You want the network address functions and operators, I presume:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/functions-net.html
HTH
Ian Barwick
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