| From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
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| To: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: bit strings - anyone working on them? |
| Date: | 2003-04-23 21:04:51 |
| Message-ID: | 1051131891.1965.39.camel@fuji.krosing.net |
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Philip Warner kirjutas K, 23.04.2003 kell 19:38:
> At 12:02 PM 23/04/2003 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >and instead
> >add a separate function that maps an integer to an LSB-first bitstring?
>
> This would work, but it's not going to be very friendly without automatic
> cast support. Does the spec mention LSB and/or numeric conversions? Also, I
> just noticed that B'0' is not equal to B'00', which also seems unfortunate.
The same is true for real strings: '0' != '00' .
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Hannu
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