At 12:14 AM 23/04/2003 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Is there a way out of this? I'm not sure.
The problem will be avoiding breaking existing apps that have adapted to
current functionality. I have no preference to endianness, but taking the
current LSB-on-left approach, I would like to see:
Cast(8 as bit(10)) => '0001000000'
Cast(8 as bit(4)) => '0001'
B'1' # Cast(1 as bit(32)) => '00000000000000000000000000000000'
B'101' | B'1001' => '1011'
as well as implement get_bit, set_bit, and numeric<=>varbit conversions.
Can anyone see a way around breaking existing apps?
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