Re: [HACKERS] Beta for 4:30AST ... ?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Beta for 4:30AST ... ?
Date: 2000-02-23 01:20:49
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0002230145260.415-100000@localhost.localdomain
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On 2000-02-22, Bruce Momjian mentioned:

> > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >
> > > * -Add BIT, BIT VARYING
> >
> > This is currently suffering from BIT rot in contrib. Not really usable.
> > And we can't squeeze it in until the bootstrap scanner recognizes tokens
> > with spaces in it. (Does it?)
>
> Aw man, I promised to put that into the main tree. Is it not usable?
> Spaces?

Somehow you have to do something similar to
insert OID = 9999 ( bit varying PGUID 1 1 t b t \054 0 0 bitvaryingin ... )

And no, naming the type bit_varying internally is not an acceptable
answer. ;) We might want to start thinking about this item before national
character comes our way. (Or just document the solution, if it already
exists.)

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