Re: bit strings - anyone working on them?

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "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 01:15:49
Message-ID: 02ef01c30935$e0a43380$6500a8c0@fhp.internal
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> Yep. Put it down to a typo/late night. Padding to right is the norm with
> varbit.

Serious? How is that in anyway useful - it just means that you have to pad
all your bit strings like you did before - it doesn't save anyone any work!

If you are in first year CS and you have to add binary numbers:

10001
+ 101

Do you right pad that 101? No way!!! You left pad it!

Chris

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