Tom Lane wrote:
> Without the flag, it's okay for cidr-to-inet to be a
> binary-compatible (no function) conversion.  However, inet-to-cidr
> has to either zero out bits to the right of the netmask, or error out
> if any are set.  Joachim Wieland posted a patch that makes the
> coercion function just silently zero out any such bits.  That's OK
> with me, but does anyone want to argue for an error?

Zero the bits if it's an explicit cast, raise an error if not.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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