Re: [HACKERS] Summary: what to do about INET/CIDR

[Peter Eisentraut]

Tom Lane writes:

> Hm.  I don't see any really good reason why host() rejects CIDR input
> in the first place.  What's wrong with producing the host address
> that corresponds to extending the CIDR network address with zeroes?

Because it's semantically wrong.  It's just as wrong as converting DATE to
TIMESTAMP by setting the time to zero.  -- And we actually do this...

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