Re: bit strings - anyone working on them?

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