Re: bit strings - anyone working on them?

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Stephan Szabo" <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, "Philip Warner" <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bit strings - anyone working on them?
Date: 2003-04-23 01:12:53
Message-ID: 02d801c30935$781c8ec0$6500a8c0@fhp.internal
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> > ISTM we should return B'11' for this. ie. build the smallest varbit that
> > contains the result, and return it.
>
> ISTM that the answer would be closer to B'10' according to the spec. The
> spec asks for right extension by 0 when casting to a larger size fixed bit
> string.

Huh??? That makes no sense at all!!!

Chris

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