From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, andrew(at)supernews(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Cleaning up the INET/CIDR mess |
Date: | 2006-01-25 17:29:04 |
Message-ID: | 200601251729.k0PHT4m00177@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> > I wonder if this would be an opportunity to fix Postgres's handling of
> > addresses like '10.1'.
>
> You've mistaken this for a proposal to change the I/O behavior, which
> it is specifically not.
>
> > The standard interpretation of this is the same as '10.0.0.1'.
>
> Standard according to whom? Paul Vixie evidently doesn't think that
> that's a standard abbreviation, else the code we borrowed from libbind
> would do it already.
Agreed. 10.1 as 10.0.0.1 is an old behavior which has been removed from
most modern versions of networking tools.
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