Re: Summary: what to do about INET/CIDR

* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [001027 17:29]:
> Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
> > I.E. for select network('207.158.72.0/24')
> > I get 
> > 207.158.72.0
> 
> To my mind that should be done with host(), not network().  If you strip
> the masklen information then what you have is no longer a network
> specification, so expecting a function named network() to behave that
> way strikes me as bizarre.
Fine, but host() rejects CIDR types right now....

LER
> 
>             regards, tom lane
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