"Thomas Swan" <tswan@idigx.com> writes:
> To convert low bits ot high bits you pad 0 bits on the left. To convert
> from high to low you strip bits off the left hand side. This allows
> reasonable behavior.
Unfortunately, the SQL spec is perfectly clear that you pad or strip
zero bits on the *right* of the bit string. We cannot change that.
It might have been better if we had defined int<->bit casts to treat
the first bit of the bit string as the LSB of the integer. But we
didn't, and it's probably too big a change to consider.
regards, tom lane