Re: inet increment with int

On 2005-09-06, Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Now with:
>
> test=# select '192.168.0.0/24'::inet + 1;
> ERROR:  Trying to increment a network (192.168.0.0/24) rather than a host

What possible justification is there for this behaviour?

> test=# select '192.168.0.1/24'::inet + -1;
> ERROR:  Increment returns a network (192.168.0.0/24) rather than a host

While I suspect I know where this idea came from, it is equally boneheaded
since it is making completely unwarranted assumptions about how inet
values are being used.

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