On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:30:49AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Kristian Larsson <krist...@spritelink.net> writes: > > Do we > > c) add a conversation between NUMERIC and INET so one can add a > > NUMERIC to an INET just as is possible today with INTEGERs? > > Proposal (c) is disingenuous because it ignores the fact that NUMERIC > does not have (and cannot easily implement) most of the bitwise > operations that people might think they want here.
Huh, good point. What you want is a finite field; which looks exactly like what the "bit" type is for. Why not use that? You can't cast them to or from numeric which is a bit annoying, but doesn't seem too hard in principle. -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
