Chapman Flack <c...@anastigmatix.net> writes: > ISO seems to allow spaces among the digits of a binary literal, so as > to group them for readability, as in X'00ba b10c'. We seem not to.
Hmm. SQL99 did not allow noise spaces in <binary string literal> and related productions, but it does look like they added that in SQL:2008. > (The B'...' form appears to be a PostgreSQL extension, but I imagine > if ISO had it, it would allow spaces too.) The B'...' form was there in SQL99. The committee took it out in SQL:2003 or so, along with the BIT type, but we still have both. regards, tom lane