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