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

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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).

Added to TODO:
* Allow substring/replace() to get/set bit values

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