Re: Extending a bit string

>
> That's SQL:99 6.22 <cast specification> general rule 11) c).
> (SV and TD are the source value and the target datatype for a cast.)
>
> In hindsight, it would likely be more consistent with this if we'd
> considered bitstrings to be LSB first when coercing them to/from integer,
> but whoever stuck that behavior in didn't think about it. Too late to
> change that now I'm afraid, though perhaps we could provide non-cast
> conversion functions that act that way.
>

Apologies, I was under the impression that casts were not in the spec. I
withdraw my request. In the 2016-draft it reads,

> If the length in octets M of SV is smaller than LTD, then TV is SV
extended on the right by
LTD–M X'00's.

That's how I read it too, and whether I feel like it's insane doesn't
matter much. But yet, the idea

5:bit(8)::bit(32)::int

Not being 5 is terrifying, so you won't find any objections to the current
behavior from me.

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