New data types IPV4 and IPV6 store IPv4 and IPv6 host addresses, respectively, in binary format. Coercion between both types and other data types, such as VARCHAR, is supported. The IPV4 and IPV6 types also support standard comparison operators, new conversion functions INET_PTON, INET_NTOP, INET6_PTON, INET6_NTOP, and bitwise functions BIT_AND, BIT_OR, BIT_XOR, BIT_NOT.

For more information, see the Ingres SQL Reference Guide.