Re: Re: BIT/BIT VARYING status

Adriaan Joubert writes:

> Peter, I think it is a problem if the B or X are dropped from the input,
> as that is the only way to determine whether it is a binary or hex
> string.

Well, you just assume it's a binary string, because it's unclear as of yet
whether you're going to get to handle hex strings at all.  However, I
changed the scanner to include a leading 'b', so now it works:

peter=# select B'1001';?column?
----------X9
(1 row)
peter=# select B'1001' | b'11';?column?
----------XC
(1 row)

The output definitely ought to be in binary though ("b1001").

You also might want to make the leading 'b' optional because this seems
confusing:

peter=# select cast ('1001' as bit);
ERROR:  zpbit_in: 1001 is not a valid bitstring

> Also, on output, shouldn't we poduce B'xxxx' and X'yyyyy' to conform
> with the input strings?

If you did that, then your input function has to be prepared for values
like "B'1001'".  (Think copy out/copy in.)  I think the above plan should
work okay.

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