Re: Bit Mapping operation

no bitmap indexes available yet.
But I'd recommend you to check contrib/intarray which
adds indexed access to array of int. You may store array of 16 int4
for each record.

Regards,

Oleg
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Najm Hashmi wrote:

> Hi all, I am just wondering if bit map operations are possible in
> pl/pgsql. We are storing sixteen different (one or many ... i.e. check
> boxes ) choices in a small int. For data cruchinging reasons, we need
> to reverse the process to find out what what fields where selected or
> checked. Is this info somewhere in the docs?
> Thanks in advance.
> Regards,
>
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>

Regards,
Oleg
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