Re: GiST support for inet datatypes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Emre Hasegeli <emre(at)hasegeli(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: GiST support for inet datatypes
Date: 2014-04-08 20:02:48
Message-ID: 26488.1396987368@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> NICE. I'd like to tell you how excited I am about this part:

> # It also handles a new network
> # operator inet && inet (overlaps, a/k/a "is supernet or subnet of"),
> # which is expected to be useful in exclusion constraints.

> ...but I can't, because my mouth is too full of drool. Wouldn't you
> really want that more for cidr than for inet, though?

Probably, but it works with either since they're binary-compatible.

regards, tom lane

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