Re: Strange input/cast semantics for inet

Greg Stark wrote:
>
> This looks very strange to me:
>
> staging=> select '1.10'::cidr;
> cidr
> -------------
> 1.10.0.0/16
> (1 row)
>
>
> The normal way to read "1.10" would be as synonymous with "1.0.0.10". This is
> even mandated by the POSIX spec for getaddrinfo and company. q

Interesting. Inet doesn't allow it, but I assume CIDR does because it
is a network and the trailing values are just assumed to be zero. It
looks OK to me as a CIDR.

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