Re: Bit strings

Can we get the BIT type working now that 7.1 is branched?

> Hi Bruce,
>
> I think there has been some confusion about the bit/bit varying
> stuff I did. I initially
> sent in a bit type that was non-SQL compliant, with the suggestion that
> this may be
> useful to stick into contrib.
>
> Then several people remarked that it would be better to have an SQL
> compliant type, so
> I wrote the code to do all the manipulations, roughly based on
>
> src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c
>
> This can evidently not be used as a standalone routine, but needs to be
> properly
> integrated into the database as a type. Unfortunately I don't really
> know an awful
> lot about the internals of postgres, and got a bit stuck trying to
> figure out how to
> integrate a new type correctly.
>
> Now I see that this second set of routines has ended up in the contrib
> directory,
> where they are quite useless. In my opinion it would be best to have no
> bit-type
> in the contrib directory and have the proper SQL compliant one properly
> integrated
> into postgres, but I'm going to need some hints to do that correctly.
>
> So my question is how we should proceed on this. Am I right in assuming
> that there
> should be no major objections to adding an SQL type to postgres, or
> should I go
> through another iteration on the mailing list?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
>
> Adriaan
>
>
>
>
> ************
>

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