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From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Best way to index IP data?
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:24:03 -0500
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:02:36PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:

> networks), but there's a conspicuous lack of a type for (hosts). I 
> suppose if you really are sure that you want to store hosts and not 
> networks 

Well, part of the trouble is that in the CIDR world, an IP without a netmask
can be dangerously ambiguous.  I can see why the design is as it is for that
reason.  (But I understand the problem.)

A




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