"Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Clarify description of CIDR-address column of pg_hba.conf, to discourage >> people from trying notations like '10.6/16', which is accepted but does >> not mean what you probably think. Per example from Paul Forgey.
> Isn't the real problem here that 10.6 doesn't mean what you probably think? If you're proposing that we change the behavior of inet_aton(), I don't think that's much of a solution, since then people who do remember the old notation ... or recognize the analogy to IPv6 abbreviations, which are not a lot different ... would get burnt. We can't do it anyway on most modern platforms, unless we want to replace all of getaddrinfo() which seems pretty unappealing. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- 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