Re: bit strings - anyone working on them? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: bit strings - anyone working on them?
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Msg-id 02d801c30935$781c8ec0$6500a8c0@fhp.internal
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In response to Re: bit strings - anyone working on them?  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
Responses Re: bit strings - anyone working on them?  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
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> > ISTM we should return B'11' for this. ie. build the smallest varbit that
> > contains the result, and return it.
>
> ISTM that the answer would be closer to B'10' according to the spec.  The
> spec asks for right extension by 0 when casting to a larger size fixed bit
> string.

Huh??? That makes no sense at all!!!

Chris



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