Re: Repair plan for inet and cidr types

Thus spake Peter Eisentraut
> network and a host are not the same thing. To construct a cidr value from
> an inet value, you'd have to use some sort of (to be created) network()
> function, e.g., network('127.0.0.5/16') => '127.0/16'. IMO, there is no

Oh, I forgot to mention:

darcy=> select network('127.1.2.3/24'::inet);
network
----------
127.1.2/24
(1 row)

There is also a host and netmask function and note:

darcy=> select host('127.1.2.3/24'::cidr);
ERROR: CIDR type has no host part

But I still see no reason why that can't be implicit if we assign the
"'127.1.2.3/24'::inet" value to a cidr. In other words let "select
('127.1.2.3/24'::inet)::cidr" give the same output.

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