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Re: New cast between inet/cidr and bytea



Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> we at Cybertec have developed cast functions in C between
> inet/cidr <-> bytea for a client and we would like to submit it.

Why is this a good idea?  Exposing the internal representation of a
datatype is usually bad.  What will you do when we add support for
scoped IPv6 addressing, to take one obvious example?

			regards, tom lane



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