PostgreSQL and Bitwise and with int8 field

I am trying to get the proper output with this SQL statement:

SELECT *, (highalarm & 0xffffffff)as high1, (highalarm >> 32)as high2 FROM t444d500009b5_2_6 ORDER BY utctime DESC LIMIT 1

im splitting this 64 bit integer into two 32 bit integers so that PHP can handle it.

if the highalarm value is 20000000040, which was inputed as a hex value chopping off the 0x at the beginning to store in an int8 field.
When changed to binary it should read 100000000000000000000000000000000001000000 which is a 64 bit binary value. from the select statement above, what i am trying to acheive is splitting this 64 bit binary up so that i can read it in two 32 bit values so that PHP can handle it.
when in the 64 bit binary value i use this value to determine error points for a device, which has 42 data points starting from right to left right being the start of point 1 and left ending in point 42 unless it is 0 it will truncate. to the closest 1 if there is one. This example happens to be point 42. so when reading it in PHP i can tell that point 42 is in alarm or in some kind of bad status and also point 7 is as well since there is a 1 in the 7 spot of this binary going from right to left.

Can i please get some help with this SQL Statement - am i doing something wrong to get this to work?
Thanks,

Cameron Seader
Operations Center Technician II
CSeader(at)Idahopower(dot)com
1.208.388.2582 Office

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