From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Sriram Dandapani <sdandapani@counterpane.com>
Cc: Pgsql-Performance (E-mail) <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: ip address data type
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:22:16 +0200
Message-ID: <87d5f54g0n.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6992E470F12A444BB787B5C937B9D4DF0406B11B@ca-mail1.cis.local>
References: <6992E470F12A444BB787B5C937B9D4DF0406B11B@ca-mail1.cis.local>
* Sriram Dandapani:
> Does the inet data type offer comparison/search performance benefits
> over plain text for ip addresses..
Queries like "host << '192.168.17.192/28'" use an available index on
the host column. In theory, you could do this with LIKE and strings,
but this gets pretty messy and needs a lot of client-side logic.
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