Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:31:13 -0500
From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>,
	josh@agliodbs.com, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Ok, how do I debug THIS? 
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--On Tuesday, May 13, 2003 16:21:39 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 
wrote:

> Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
>>> Ugh.  cidr doesn't appear to cast to text.  You may be able to go
>>> through inet, but I'm not really sure because I haven't really used
>>> those types.
>
>> looks like I can, **BUT** is this the RIGHT thing?  I suspect it SHOULD
>> cast to text.  IMNSHO.
>
> Probably.  We have an inet->text cast, and the same function would work
> for cidr->text.  I think it's just an oversight that there's no such
> entry in pg_cast.  You could add one by hand ...
How would I do that?

Also, this is what I wound up with for that line, which seems ugly, because
it couldn't find a quote_literal(inet) without the ::text on it:

  quote_literal(NEW.netblock::inet::text) ;


Is that right?


>
> 			regards, tom lane


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