At 11:29 AM 23/04/2003 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Cast( Cast(42 as bit(32)) as bit(10))
>yield? Unless you make the second cast truncate at the left, you'll get
>ten zero bits out of this.
I'm still missing the point, I think.
Cast(42 as bit(32)) => 01010100000000000000000000000000
Cast(B'01010100000000000000000000000000' as bit(10)) => '0101010000'
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