[wp-hackers] Storing IP's in the DB

[Dougal Campbell]

Ozh wrote:
> Hey peeps
>
> I've read that it's better & faster to store IP as integers instead of
> strings, and then using INET_ATON / INET_NTOA functions to convert
> (the argument being that MySQL is faster with numbers than with
> strings)
>
> Any reason why WP is not doing this?
>   

The only place that Core stores IP numbers is for comments, right? Do we 
ever do any indexing by IP number? Even if so, it's not a very common 
operation. It's probably mostly a case of "If it ain't broke, don't fix 
it." There's just not much to gain by changing that, except for the rare 
case of sites that spend a lot of time reviewing zillions of spam 
comments and grouping/sorting them by IP.

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