Laurent Wacrenier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) reports a bug with a severity of 2 The lower the number the more severe it is. Short Description inet function return untestable texts Long Description I'm running 7.0.3 on FreeBSD host, netmask, etc.. inet function return unusable strings : for example, host('10.0.0.1') print '10.0.0.1' but is you make a comparison with '=', the result is alway false. char_length reports this two strings have differents length. Sample Code test=# select host('10.0.0.1'), char_length(host('10.0.0.1')), char_length('10.0.0.1'); host | char_length | char_length ----------+-------------+------------- 10.0.0.1 | 9 | 8 (1 row) test=# select host('10.0.0.1') = '10.0.0.1', host('10.0.0.1') like '10.0.0.1'; ?column? | ?column? ----------+---------- f | t No file was uploaded with this report ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster