On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > "Andreas Karlsson" <andr...@proxel.se> writes: >> I was looking at the code to see how one would improve indexing of the inet >> types and saw an inconsistency between the compressed format >> (gbt_inet_compress) and how network_cmp_internal works. The btree_gist >> module ignores the netmask. > > Well, actually the btree_gist implementation for inet is a completely > broken piece of junk: it thinks that convert_network_to_scalar is 100% > trustworthy and can be used as a substitute for the real comparison > functions, which isn't even approximately true. I'm not sure why > Teodor implemented it like that instead of using the type's real > comparison functions, but it's pretty much useless if you want the > same sort order that the type itself defines.
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