> > I ended up writing a bunch of code to accomplish what I initially
> > thought would be just some casting and bitops on built-in types.
> I imagine you could have done something involving textout() and
> varbit_in(), like
>
> alvherre=# select varbit_in(textout(translate('YYNY', 'YN', '10')),
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:18:27PM +, Matt Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 20:05 +, Matt Miller wrote:
> > I'm trying to interpret strings of Y's and N's as bit vectors and
> > perform bitwise ops on them.
>
> Well, I ended up writing a bunch of code to accomplish what I initially
>
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 20:05 +, Matt Miller wrote:
> I'm trying to interpret strings of Y's and N's as bit vectors and
> perform bitwise ops on them.
Well, I ended up writing a bunch of code to accomplish what I initially
thought would be just some casting and bitops on built-in types. I
reall
I'm trying to interpret strings of Y's and N's as bit vectors and
perform bitwise ops on them. It's not working:
beginning of output=
test=# select version ();
version
> It's curious to me that the following is fine:
>
> beginning of output=
> test=# select '1001'::bit varying;
> varbit
>
> 1001
> (1 row)
> end of output
Okay, I guess I'm not so curious, thanks to
http://www.post
