Re: Cleaning up the INET/CIDR mess

Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
>> I wonder if this would be an opportunity to fix Postgres's handling
>> of addresses like '10.1'.
> 
> You've mistaken this for a proposal to change the I/O behavior, which
> it is specifically not.
> 
>> The standard interpretation of this is the same as '10.0.0.1'.
> 
> Standard according to whom?  Paul Vixie evidently doesn't think that
> that's a standard abbreviation, else the code we borrowed from libbind
> would do it already.

We had a **LONG** discussion on the I/O formats back in the 7.2 timeframe.
the current
behavior is the result of that.

Please do **NOT** change the I/O formats.

LER
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