Re: bit strings - anyone working on them?

From: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bit strings - anyone working on them?
Date: 2003-04-22 15:51:56
Message-ID: 5.1.0.14.0.20030423014918.03f096b8@mail.rhyme.com.au
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At 11:31 AM 22/04/2003 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>If anything I'd expect to see
>padding added on the right.

Yep. Put it down to a typo/late night. Padding to right is the norm with
varbit.

> > Doesn't seem too unreasonable to support varbit<->numeric conversions.

At least in 7.3.2 we can't cast int to varbit. Worse still (and maybe I am
missing something):

# select cast(8 as bit(10));
bit
------------
0000000000

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