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Re: [GENERAL] order by

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: dhm@paradigm.webvision.com (dave madden)
Cc: milang@tal.org, pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-06-11T17:31:57Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
> 
> There may be a special function (or you could write one) to sort
> numbers which are represented as varchars, but a better solution would
> be to re-store the IP numbers as integers.  This will also allow you
> to work on them with netmasks and so forth.  Convert them back to
> A.B.C.D when you print them out.
> 

See contrib/ip_and_mac.

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