Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
> Please do *NOT* revert the output functions. One of the MAJOR reasons
> for the change was to ALWAYS print ALL 4 octets of an IPv4 address in
> the default case.
AFAICT, Paul is not objecting to our adjustments to the I/O conventions.
What he wants is to find a way for the inner inet_{net_}{ntop,pton}
functions to remain identical to the ones in BIND, and do the
adjustments in the Postgres-specific wrapper routines. I'm not sure how
important that is in reality, but I have no problem with trying...
regards, tom lane