On Jan 25, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
On 2006-01-25, Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This isn't an obscure old-fashioned thing. People really do use
this syntax.
Given how little code now supports 10.1 meaning 10.0.0.1, that seems a
questionable point.
All code that uses gethostbyname() on, at least, Linux, Solaris,
Windows XP,
OS X and (I think) the BSDs and anything else that's even vaguely
posix uses it.
I don't think that's terribly relevant to the PG inet types, though.
Rejecting any
input format that's not a dotted-quad seems the safest thing to do,
and doesn't
lose any useful functionality. Given the number of people in this
thread who
think that the (non-standard, archaic) behaviour of bind is correct
it's clear that
accepting anything other than a real dotted-quad will lead to an
inconsistency
between what the data represents and what the user thinks it
represents, and
that's bound to cause problems.
Cheers,
Steve
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