Inet performance

Hi -

Has anyone noticed a significant performance hit using the inet/cidr
data types? I'm debating between setting up the my database using the
12 byte inet type or 4 columns of 1-byte tinyints to represent ip
address octets.

Thanks,
Tanya

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