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<font face="Tahoma">Hello all,<br>
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I am new to PostgreSQL, coming from MySQL. I have a question that
strikes me as simple but Google has failed to turn up any simple
answers. I utilize bit masking in my code. In MySQL I used this:<br>
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SELECT * WHERE col & 3;<br>
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When I ported my code I was using an 8.1 PostgreSQL staging server, and
this worked:<br>
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SELECT * WHERE (col & 3)::bool;<br>
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Now that I'm testing it in the 8.2 production server, it's telling me I
can't cast integer to bool. I know I can just use (col & 3)
<> 0, and it's what I'm doing, but I feel like I'm missing
something that you can't convert an integer to a boolean. What
surprised me even more was:<br>
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SELECT 1::bit::bool; -- ERROR: cannot cast type bit to boolean<br>
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It also seems strange that you can't cast a bit to boolean. So I guess
my question is one of curiosity, since I have a perfectly workable
solution (comparing against 0), but am I missing something here? I know
I can create my own casts but I feel like altering casting rules for
such a low-level type as integer and bool would be a bad idea.<br>
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Thanks,</font><br>
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<small><font face="Verdana"><b>Mark</b></font><br>
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