On 13 January 2018 at 01:57, Christian Rossow <christian.ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Fabien, > > > I think that the probability of getting these useful things into pg is > > alas small. In the mean time, you may package and register it as an > > extension? > I aimed to close the asymmetry between bit vector operations (they also > offer xor/and/etc.) and bytea operations. My code is more or less a 1:1 > copy of the corresponding bit vector operations (in fact, just a tiny > bit easier, since bytea is byte-aligned, wheres bit vectors aren't). > > I just wanted to dump the code here, given that Tom suggested (in 2006) > such an implementation might be a useful addition to bytea. But I won't > feel offended in any way if the code won't be merged. > Seems like a good idea to me. Conversion between bit varying and bytea would be a big help. So would casts from bit varying or bytea <-> integer and other types. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
