Re: data type for storing IP address?

On the other hand, there's nothing to stop us from creating such a datatype ...

If I can steal some hours from everybody else screaming to get things done, that might be fun to work on.

r,

Gus

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak_at_proquest.com> wrote:

> Nope. No such datatype exists.
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> Hello,
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> PostgreSQL offers data types for storing IPv4, IPv6, and MAC network
> addresses. Does Oracle yet have a similar data type that understands IP
> addresses (and/or IP address ranges such as "192.168.0.0/16") so that
> greater-than, less-than, between, and other comparisons can be made?
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