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FUNCTIONS / NETWORK ADDRESS FUNCTIONS AND OPERATORS

family

Read PG 18 manual ↗

Returns the address's family: 4 for IPv4, 6 for IPv6.

Signatures & examples

family ( inet ) → integer
Returns the address's family: 4 for IPv4, 6 for IPv6.
family(inet '::1') → 6
Version history 1
  1. PG 12 → 13changed

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