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Old 04-19-2008, 06:58 PM
Tom Lane
 
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Default Re: JOINing based on whether an IP address is contained within a CIDR range?

"Jamie Tufnell" <diesql@googlemail.com> writes:
> Is it possible to somehow JOIN using the <<= and
> = network operators?


Sure, why not?

You probably won't get a plan that's smarter than a nestloop, but I
imagine you'll have few enough rows in network_names that it won't
matter.

One potential problem is if there could be overlapping entries in
network_names --- the join would give you multiple rows for any
log entry that matches more than one network_names entry. You
could fix that using a subselect with LIMIT 1, as long as you
weren't too picky about which name got reported.

regards, tom lane

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