On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com> writes:
>> For a replacement type, how important is it that it be completely
>> compatible with the existing inet/cidr types? Is anyone actually using
>> inet types with a non-cidr mask?
>
> If you check the archives you'll discover that our current inet/cidr
> types were largely designed and implemented by Paul Vixie (yes, that
> Vixie). I'm disinclined to second-guess Paul about the external
> definition of these types; I just want to rationalize the internal
> representation a bit. In particular we've got some issues about
> conversions between the two types ...
Please do **NOT** break the external representations. We had enough fights
about that 2-3 releases ago, and I personally don't want to revisit them.
Yes, we do flakey things with inet on the masking stuff.
LER
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