Re: [HACKERS] Summary: what to do about INET/CIDR

[Tom Lane]

Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I.E. for select network('207.158.72.0/24')
> I get 
> 207.158.72.0

To my mind that should be done with host(), not network().  If you strip
the masklen information then what you have is no longer a network
specification, so expecting a function named network() to behave that
way strikes me as bizarre.

                        regards, tom lane