inet function return untestable texts

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Date: 2001-04-06T15:40:33Z
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Laurent Wacrenier (lwa@teaser.fr) reports a bug with a severity of 2
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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


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