On Jan 10, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi List;
>
> We'll be loading a table with begining & ending I.P.'s - the table
> will likely
> have upwards of 30million rows. Any thoughts on how to get the best
> performance out of queries that want to look for IP ranges or the
> use of
> between queries? Should these be modeled as integers?
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/ip4r/
That has the advantage over using integers, or the built-in inet type,
of being indexable for range and overlap queries.
Cheers,
Steve