PL/SQL or PL/PGSQL...
Chris
Michael Fuhr wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:31:59PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
OK, I give up - how do I convert an INET type to a NUMERIC
representation of its network address?
How about:
CREATE FUNCTION inet2num(inet) RETURNS numeric AS $$
use Socket;
return unpack("N", inet_aton($_[0]));
$$ LANGUAGE plperlu IMMUTABLE STRICT;
SELECT inet2num('127.0.0.1');
inet2num
------------
2130706433
(1 row)
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TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
match
