Re: implemented missing bitSetBit() and bitGetBit() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: implemented missing bitSetBit() and bitGetBit()
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Msg-id 200402042051.33509.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: implemented missing bitSetBit() and bitGetBit()  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
Responses Re: implemented missing bitSetBit() and bitGetBit()
Re: implemented missing bitSetBit() and bitGetBit()
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Neil Conway wrote:
> David Helgason <david@uti.is> writes:
> > I needed these, so I went and implemented them myself.
>
> I didn't see any followup to this: do we want to include this in the
> main tree, contrib/, or not at all?

getbit sounds a lot like what substring() does.  So perhaps setbit could 
actually be handled by replace()?  That would be a more general 
solution (since it would handle more than one bit at a time).



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