Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] Update of bitmask type

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
To: Adriaan Joubert <a(dot)joubert(at)albourne(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Postgresql <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] Update of bitmask type
Date: 1999-09-23 21:04:59
Message-ID: 37EA95FB.F6DF530A@tm.ee
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Adriaan Joubert wrote:
>
> b) seems to imply, rather bizarrely in my opinion, that
>
> B'001100' < B'10'
>
Maybe you start counting from the wrong end ?

Just use them as you use char()

'AABBAA' < 'BA'

Does it say something in the standard about direction,
is it left-> right or right->left ?

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Hannu

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