Re: Best way to index IP data?

[Michael Stone <mstone+postgres(at)mathom(dot)us>]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:00:55PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> another way, without context, a dotted-quad is insufficient on its own. 
> What you're really arguing is that the context ought to be storable
> somewhere else (maybe in a human's brain)

Or, say, in a database schema, where you say "this column contains host 
IPs"? Are you suggesting that the IP associated with the host can 
somehow be ambiguous? IMO, the only ambiguity is that the type is 
defined as "network or host".

Mike Stone