Curious result from text ( netmask ( inet ) ) functions.

spidermon=# SELECT version();
                           version
--------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 7.1.2 on i386--freebsd4.3, compiled by GCC 2.95.3
(1 row)

spidermon=# SELECT netmask ( '192.168.1.1/28' ) ;
     netmask
-----------------
 255.255.255.240
(1 row)

spidermon=# SELECT text ( netmask ( '192.168.1.1/28' ) );
        text
--------------------
 255.255.255.240/32 - ??????
(1 row)

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 Vadim I. Passynkov, Axxent Corp.
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