Re: (7.1) BIT datatype

"Christopher Kings-Lynne" wrote:
>I have been using the BIT and VARBIT types in Postgres 7.0.3 (undocumented I
>believe), and I note that the _input_ format is as follows:
>
>update blah set flags='b101001'; -- Binary

That is still accepted.

>update blah set flags='xff45'; -- Hex

That is not.

>But the _output_ format (for varbit) is always:
>
>B'1010110'

bray=# select * from junk;
id | flag1 | flags | flags2
------+-------+----------+--------
AAAA | 1 | 11000101 |
BBBB | 0 | 00111010 |
cccc | 0 | 01101100 | 11001
dddd | 0 | 01100000 |

>Has any of this changed in 7.1?

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