Representing IPv4/IPv6 addresses in Oracle

Question

In Oracle, what is the appropriate data type or technique for representing network addresses, which addresses may be IPv4 or IPv6?

Background: I\'m converting a tab

Answer 1

The Oracle documentation does state INTEGER is an alias to NUMBER(38), but that is probably a typo, because the paragraph above it states:

NUMBER(p,s) where: p is the precision... Oracle guarantees the portability of numbers with precision of up to 20 base-100 digits, which is equivalent to 39 or 40 decimal digits depending on the position of the decimal point.

So NUMBER can store 39 to 40 digits, and INTEGER is likely an alias to NUMBER(max precision) instead of NUMBER(38). There is why the example provided works (and it works if you change INTEGER to NUMBER).