----- Цитат от Stephen Frost (sfr...@snowman.net), на 01.12.2011 в 15:56 -----
> * Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: >> > Erm, isn't there a contrib type that already does all that for you..? >> > ip4r or whatever? Just saying, if you're looking for that capability.. >> >> Oh, huh, good to know. Still, I'm not sure why you need to load a >> separate type to get this... there's no reason why the built-in CIDR >> type couldn't support it. > > The semantics of that type aren't what people actually want and there's > been push-back about changing it due to backwards compatibility, etc. > That's my recollection of the situation, anyway. I'm sure there's all > kinds of fun talk in the archives about it. > I have reached one or two times to use build-in inet/cidr types but the lack of indexing support for "contains op" was stopping me - i have used ip4r extension. I do not think that adding index support to a datatype classifies as semantic change that will break backward compatibility. Best regards -- Luben Karavelov
